Honors

  • Teaching Fellow and Mentor

    The Inaugural Teaching Fellow and Mentor for Smith College, Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning. 2018-present.

  • OAH Distinguished Lecturer

    Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. 2019-2025.

  • President's Award for Mentoring

    The Inaugural Recipient of the President’s Award for Mentoring, Smith College. 2019.

  • Ralph D. Gray Prize

    Ralph D. Gray Prize for the best article published in the Journal of the Early Republic in 2016 for “The Etymology of N***er: Resistance, Language, and the Politics of Freedom in the Antebellum North,” v. 36. n. 2 (Summer 2016), pp. 203-245. 2017.

  • Sherrerd Prize

    The Kathleen Compton Sherrerd ’54 and John J.F. Sherrerd Prize for Distinguished Teaching, Smith College. 2016

  • Student Government Teaching Award

    Student Government Teaching Award for Untenured Faculty, Smith College. 2011.