Fellowships, Awards, and Recognition

External Awards, Fellowships, and Recognition

Peer Mentorship Grant, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, -Awardee, 2023

The Crossroads Project (Housed in Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion - Funded by Henry Luce Foundation) – Fellow, 2022

Sacred Writes Public Scholarship Fellow (Funded by Henry Luce Foundation), 2021

Louisville Dissertation Fellowship, 2020

Rubem Alves Award for Theopoetics, 2020

Heidelberg Center for American Studies Spring Academy (Heidelberg, Germany) -selectee, 2020

Forum for Theological Exploration: Doctoral Fellow, 2019-2020

Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion: Teaching Seminar selected, 2019

Forum for Theological Exploration, Doctoral Fellow, 2018-2019

Louisville Doctoral Fellowship, 2017-2018

Forum for Theological Exploration: Professional Development for Doctoral Students Cohort, 2016-2017

Forum for Theological Exploration: Mentorship Grant, 2014

Internal Awards, Fellowships, and Recognition

 George Bond Teaching Award Finalist, 2020

Northwestern University: (MFA) Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop (selected), 2019

George Bond Teaching Award, Finalist, 2018

Social Science Research Council- Dissertation Proposal Development (DPD) Program for Doctoral Students Cohort, 2018

Northwestern University: Mellon Cluster Fellowship (Comparative Race and Diaspora), 2016

Perkins School of Theology: The B’Nai B’Rith Award for Scholarly Competence and Personal Commitment to Social Ethics: 2016

Perkins School of Theology: Martin Luther King Jr/Oscar Romero Scholarship Award, 2014, 2015

United Methodist Church: General Board and Higher Education and Ministry: Graduate Student

Scholarship, 2015

United Methodist Church: General Board and Higher Education and Ministry: Graduate Student Scholarship, 2014

Criswell College: Presidential Scholarship, 2011