External Fellowships & Grants for Research

2024-25 Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Shakespeare, Publics, and the Humanities

2024     Five Colleges Incorporated, Building Academic Leaders in the Humanities Program, NEH (declined)

2024     Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Race, Place, and the Non-Human

2023     Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Global Early Modern Trans Studies

2020     MassHumanities Grant, PI. Community Shakespeare

2019     MassHumanities Grant, PI. Community Shakespeare

2019     Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Intersecting the Sexual: Modes of Early Modern Embodiment

2019     Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: The Languages of Nature

2019     Short Term Residential Fellowship, The Huntington Library

2018     Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Digging the Past: Writing and Agriculture in the Seventeenth Century

2016     Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Visualizing English Print

2013     Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowship in Renaissance England (4 months). The Huntington Library

2011     Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant. PI. (2011-2014)

2012     Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Symposium on the English and Dutch in the Early Modern World. Co-applicant:
Kristina Bross (2012)

2011     Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences Grant. Co-applicant:
Nicholas Terpstra (2011)

2010     Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Crossroads of Amsterdam

2008     Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Residential Fellow (4 months). The Huntington Library

2006     Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Research Fellow in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies. University of Warwick, UK

2006     Travel Grant. Newberry Consortium for Renaissance Studies. The Newberry Library

2004     Travel Grant. Newberry Consortium for Renaissance Studies. The Newberry Library

2003     Travel Grant. Newberry Consortium for Renaissance Studies. The Newberry Library

 

Internal Fellowships & Grants for Research

2023     Interdisciplinary Research Grant, Anthropocene Lab, UMass Amherst. ($46,100) (2023)
Co-applicants: Malcolm Sen, Thad Miller, Sandy Litchfield, Robert DeConto, Regine Spector

2018     Five College Consortium Lecture Fund, ‘Shakespeare and the African Diaspora’

2016     Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC.

2015     Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC.

2014     Research Competitiveness Fund. Office of the Vice-Principal Research, UTSC.

2014     Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC.

2010     Jackman Humanities Institute, Working Group Grant. Early Modern Exiles. Co-lead with Nicholas Terpstra. University of Toronto.
(2010-2011& 2011-2012)

2011     Jackman Humanities Institute, Program for the Arts Grant. Between Worlds: Robert Daborne’s A Christian Turn’d Turke (1612),
performance. University of Toronto

2011     Research Grant. Office of the Vice-Principal Research, UTSC

2011     Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC

2010     Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC

2009     Co-curricular Initiatives Project Grant, Office of Arts and Events Programming, UTSC. Conversations in the Humanities,
Faculty Speaker Series (2009-2010)

2008     Connaught New Faculty Start-Up Grant. Connaught Foundation. University of Toronto

2008     New Faculty Research Grant. Department of Humanities, UTSC

2006     Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellow. University of Michigan (2006-2007)

2006     Institute for the Humanities Graduate Student Fellowship. University of Michigan (declined)

2005     Rackham Humanities Research Dissertation Fellowship. University of Michigan (2005-2006)

2005     Rackham Graduate School Summer Research Travel Grant. University of Michigan

2004     Rackham Humanities Research Candidacy Fellowship. University of Michigan

2004     Rackham/Hewlett/International Institute International Travel Grant. University of Michigan

2004     Grant-in-Aid, Women’s Studies Department, University of Michigan

2003     English Department Summer Funding Fellowship. University of Michigan (2003, 2004, 2005, & 2006)

2003     English Department Dissertation Research Grant. University of Michigan

2003     Center for European Studies Summer Research Grant. University of Michigan

 

Research Awards & Honors

2011     Connaught New Researcher Award. University of Toronto.

2008     Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention

2006     John D’Arms Graduate Student Award in the Humanities

2004     John D’Arms Graduate Student Award in the Humanities

2000     English Department’s nomination for the Graduate School Distinguished Masters Thesis Award, University of Missouri-Columbia

1995     Summa cum laude with highest departmental honors, Vassar College

1995     Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa

 

Teaching Awards & Grants

2019     Finalist for the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Fall)

2018     Outstanding Staff Award. Center for Multicultural Advancement and Student Success, University of Massachusetts Amherst (April)

2018     Nomination for the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Spring)

2018     Teaching Enhancement Grant, Centre for Teaching and Learning, UTSC. Shakespeare in Performance

2011     Teaching Enhancement Grant, Centre for Teaching and Learning, UTSC. Shakespeare in Context

2009     Teaching Enhancement Grant, Centre for Teaching and Learning, UTSC. Imagined Communities of Early Modern England, 1500-1700

2014     David and Linda Moscow Prize for Excellence in Teaching English Composition. Department of English, University of Michigan

2004     English Department’s nomination for the university-wide Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of Michigan.

2000     Green Chalk Award. Awarded by the University of Missouri-Columbia College of Arts and Sciences to a graduate instructor for
excellence in teaching.