Academic Awards, Fellowships, Grants, and Honors

Grants
  • SSHRC Explore – Arts Research Grant for “Hermeneutic Intimacy: Reading the Frail Body of August von Platen” ($4,000) (2022)
  • DAAD Research Stay Grant for Divinatory Cultural Techniques and Structures of Queer Intimacy, 1900–1933 ($7,400) (2022)
  • UBC Work Learn Program Student Subsidy Program for Assistant to the Director of Undergraduate Studies ($1,125) (2022)
  • SSHRC Explore Grant – Arts Research Assistant Support Grant for “Black Germans in Canada” ($4,992) (2022)
  • UBC Advanced Educational Renewal Grant for “Renewal of German Undergraduate Program,” submitted with Kyle Frackman, Caroline Rieger, and Jason Lieblang ($49,037) (2020-21)
  • UBC CENES Research Grant for Anders als die Andern ($1,000) (2020)
  • SSHRC Explore Grant – Arts Research for “Fandom’s Minutia: Palm Readings in Weimar Film Magazine Culture” ($3,996) (2020)
  • SSHRC Connection Grant for “The Past and Futures of Queer German Studies,” submitted with Kyle Frackman ($14,942) (2020)
  • DAAD Conference Support Grant for “The Past and Futures of Queer German Studies,” submitted with Kyle Frackman ($5,531) (2020)
  • UBC CENES Ulrich Maché Memorial Fund for Material Acquisition ($500) (2019)
  • UBC Scholarly Publication Fund for Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion($3,500) (2019)
  • SSHRC Exchange Arts Workshop and Visiting Speaker Grant for Collaboration with Regine Criser and for Criser’s workshop ($2,000) (2019)
  • Hampton New Faculty Research Award for “Queer Melodrama and Weimar Cultural Imagination.” ($10,000) (2018-20)
  • SHSU EURECA Award for collaborative research among undergraduate students and faculty. Submitted with Jeff Littlejohn. Title of Project: “Texas-German Immigrant Responses to Lynchings in Central Texas.” (US$8,000, declined) (2018)
  • SHSU Teaching Innovation Grant for “Reimagining the Language Lab Experience.” Submitted with Leif French, Maria Barker, and Tatiana Artamonova. (US$10,000) (2017-18)
  • SHSU Faculty Research Grant for Anxious Telling: Fragile Literary Culture in Early Wilhelmine Germany (US$5,000) (2017)
  • SHSU EURECA Award funded by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences for collaborative research among undergraduate students and faculty. Submitted with Leif French. Title of Project: “The Development of L2 Oral Proficiency: Comparing Short-Term Study Abroad and Domestic Learning Contexts.” (US$10,000) (2017)
  • Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Conference Support Grant for “Diversity, Decolonialization, and the German Curriculum.” Submitted with Regine Criser. (US$3,000) (2017)
  • American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Conference Support Grant for “Diversity, Decolonialization, and the German Curriculum.” Submitted with Regine Criser (US$1,000) (2017)
  • Deutsch macht Spaß Grant from the American Association of Teachers of German (2016)
  • Delta Phi Alpha Chapter Grant for Student Symposium “Contemporary Germany and the Syrian Refugee Crisis,” Sam Houston State University (2015)
  • Mellon Summer Dissertation Seminar, Washington University (2015)
  • The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Washington University (2014-15)
  • Center for the Humanities Reading Group Grant, “New Trends in Cognitive Narrative Theory,” Washington University (2013-15)
  • Fulbright Research Fellowship, University of Tübingen (2012-13)
  • Humanities Digital Workshop Summer Fellowship, Washington University (2011)
  • Bosch Foundation Weekend Seminar Grant, German Literature Archive (DLA) Marbach (2011)
  • The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences University Fellowship, Washington University (2009-10)
 
Awards
  • UBC Dept of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies Outstanding Mentorship Award (2022)
  • UBC Green College, Leading Scholar (2019-21)
  • Award for Achievement in Teaching Excellence in German, Washington University (2014)
  • Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership Award, University of Illinois (2009)
  • Robert Kauf Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Illinois (2008)
  • Delta Phi Alpha (2005)