Awards and Research

NCSSM/UNC Excellence in Teaching Award: Exceptional Contributions in Scholarship, 2009


 NEH Summer Institute: “Becoming Modern: America—1918-1929,” National Humanities Center, June-July2009


 NEH Summer Institute: “Making the Revolution: America—1763-1789,” National Humanities Center, June-July 2008


 NEH Summer Seminar: “Developing Cartographic Literacy with Historic Maps,” Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, June-July 2005


 NEH Project: "Herman Melville and American Versions of Pastoral," Department of English, Columbia University, Summer 1996


 Post-Doctoral Study, Renaissance and Reformation Hiistory and  Philosohy, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, 1996-1997; 1999-2001


NEH Summer Institute: "Alien Texts, New Voices: Writing by and about Women in the English Renaissance," Ashcroft Hall and the Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University, Summer 1995


 NEH Summer Seminar: "The Humanist as Reformer,” Department of History, Duke University, Summer 1993


 NEH Summer Seminar: "Henry Adams," Department of History, Emory University, Summer 1990


 Mellon Foundation Summer Institute: “Writers and their Audiences," National Humanitie Center, 1990