2017
Faculty Fellowship at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan Ann Arbor for the academic year 2017-18
2016
Spring/Summer Mentorship Program with Ph.D. Candidate, Janée Moses, University of Michigan.
2015
Travel Grant to Professional Conference with Faculty Award with: 1. Joo Young Lee and 2. Jallicia Jollie, University of Michigan.
ADVANCE Summer Writing Grants for book manuscript, Me and My House: James Baldwin and Black Domesticity.
2014-15
Michigan Humanities Award, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Distinguished Visiting Professor of African American Studies, University of Montpellier, France, May 30 – June 22, 2014.
2013
Rackham Spring/Summer Research Grant (funding for a Research Assistant) for book project, In the Company of Women.
Summer Research Funding, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies for book project, In the Company of Women.
2012
Multi-source eGiF funding for Two-Day Symposium: “Behind the Veil of the Private/Political: James Baldwin Remembered, Recalled, and Reviewed,” September 19 and 20, 2012. University of Michigan.
Distinguished Visiting Professor of African American Studies, University of Cagliari in Italy (UNICA), June 13 – July 14.
University of Michigan, Research Award for book project, “In the Company of Women” and Faculty Grant to organize “One Day Symposium on James Baldwin” (sponsors: College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Institute for the Humanities, International Institute, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, American Culture).
2010
CREES Faculty Travel Award ($500.00) for the new book project, Racing Borderlands, and related conference (MESEA, Pesc, Hungary, June 2010).
2009
Modern Language Association William Sanders Scarborough Prize for an Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature or Culture for James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade
Honorable Mention, Errol Hill Award (for outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies) from the American Society for Theater Research for James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade
Institute for the Humanities, 2009-2010 Hunting Family Faculty Fellowship for book project, Racing Borderlands
2008
Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, University of Michigan, Faculty Grant of $3,000 for the new book project, Racing Borderlands
2007
Arts of Citizenship, University of Michigan, Seed Grant of $1,500 for the new book project, Racing Borderlands.
2006
Office of the Vice Provost for Research Subvention Fund for the publication of James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade, University of Michigan
2004
Global Ethnic Literatures Seminar Fellowship, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
2002
Fellowship and Grant for Erotics of Space: James Baldwin and the Transatlantic Architextures of Desire, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies Grant and Fellowship Program, University of Michigan
2001
Interdisciplinary Faculty Associate Award, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan
2000
Resident Fellowship, Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, Scotland (declined)
Research Grant for “James Baldwin’s France,” Aarhus University Research Foundation, Denmark
1999-00
Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane University, USA
Research Fellowship, Centre for Cultural Research, Aarhus University, Denmark
1998
Salzburg Seminar Fellowship in American Studies, Salzburg, Austria
1997
USIS Denmark Grant for a conference and volume project, “Other America(n)s: The Politics and Poetics of Multiculturalism,” American Studies Center Aarhus, Aarhus University, Denmark
1995-96
Research and Professional Growth Awards, Faculty Development Awards, Furman University
1995
PEW Foundation Summer Award
1994
Scholar in residence at “Kuncewiczowka,.” The Maria Kuncewicz Foundation, Poland
1993
Research and Professional Growth Summer Award, Faculty Development Award, Furman University
Summer Research Fellowship, Oregon Humanities Center, University of Oregon
1992
Finalist: Junior Fellowship in the Harvard Society of Fellows
1991-92
Oregon Humanities Center Graduate Fellowship
1990-92
Graduate Teaching Fellowship in Department of English, University of Oregon
1990-91
Jane Grant Dissertation Grant, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon
1987-90
Graduate Teaching Fellowship in American Studies, University of Oregon
