

“Fiction is of great value to any people as a preserver of manners and customs— religious, political and social… It is a record of growth and development from generation to generation.”
Pauline Hopkins, Contending Forces, 1900
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
2024 Angie Warren Perkins Award, Chancellor’s Honors, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2023 – 2024 Faculty Fellowship, Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2022 – 2023 Southeastern Conference (SEC) Visiting Faculty Travel Grant
2022 – 2024 Summer Institute on Tenure and Professional Advancement (SITPA), Duke University
2022 – 2023 Research Development Academy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2022 First Book Institute, Center for American Literary Studies, Penn State University
2022 The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) Research Development Grant for BIPOC Scholars
2021 Community Engagement Academy Seed Grant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2021 Anisfield-Wolf Summer Seminar, Cleveland Humanities Collaborative
2021 Reimagining New England History: Historical Injustice, Sovereignty and Freedom, The Frank C. Munson Institute at Mystic Seaport Museum
2019 Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW) Dissertation Fellowship
2019 Modern Language Association (MLA) Career Development Boot Camp Fellow
2018 – 2019 Alpha Kappa Alpha Educational Advancement Foundation Inc. Graduate Fellowship
2018 – 2019 Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship, University of Maryland, College Park
2017 In Black and White: Race and American Visual Culture, Center for Historic American Visual Culture Summer Seminar, American Antiquarian Society