Academic Awards.

Recognized administrative positions based on academic leadership and administration.
Sabbatical Leave

Arizona State University (Internal)

Fall 2019
Benjamin N. Duke National Humanities Center Senior Fellowship

North Carolina (External $35,000)

Spring 2019
PLuS Alliance Fellowship

PLuS Alliance, Arizona State University | Kings College London | University of New South Wales, (Internal, $10,000 per annum)

2017 – 2019
Virginia G. Piper Fellowship

Virginia G. Piper Center, Arizona State University, (Internal $15,000,)

2016 – 2017
CLAS Humanities Research Incentive Award

(Internal $1,000)

2016
NEH Guest Faculty

“The Environmental Humanities.” Imagining Sustainable Environments: Place and Culture in the Global Community. National Endowment for the Humanities. Humanities Institute. Virginia State University, May 18-22, 2015 (External $750)

2016
NEH Guest Faculty

“The Environmental Humanities.” Imagining Sustainable Environments: Place and Culture in the Global Community. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Institute. Virginia State University, May 18-22, 2015. (External $750)

2015
ASU Faculty Women’s Association Outstanding Mentor Award
2014
Visiting Scholar Fellowship

University of Alcalá, Alcalá, Spain, to work with members of GIECO (Grupo de Investigación en Ecocrítica) at the Instituto de Investigación en Estudios Norteamericano, June 22-July 18, (External $2000)

2012
Sabbatical Leave

Arizona State University (Internal)

Fall 2012
Nominee

The Dan Shilling Public Humanities Scholar Award (External)

2012
NEH Guest Faculty

“What are the Environmental Humanities?” Rethinking the Land Ethic: Sustainability and the Humanities National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Institute, Flagstaff, AZ. (External)

2011
Fellow

he Humanities and Human Origins, Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University, (Internal $8000)

2010 – 2011
National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Stipend

“Nature and History at the Nation’s Edge: A Field Institute in Environmental and Borderlands History,” Tucson, AZ, June 14-July 11, (External $3200)

2009
Local co-PI

With Beth Vershure, Station Manager at KAET/Channel Eight, We Shall Remain: A Native History of America, WGBH outreach grant to hold We Shall Remain events and outreach activities (with surrounding Native American communities) at ASU, (External)

2006 – 2010
Fellow

Lincoln Polytechnic Ethics Seminar, Arizona State University, (Internal $4000)

2009 – 2010
Distinguished Visiting Scholar Fellowship

Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, June 1-30 (External)

2008
Sabbatical Leave

University of Arizona (Internal)

2005
Research Career Development Fund Award

Office of the Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost, University of Arizona (Internal, $5000)

2003
Distinguished Visiting Scholar Fellowship

Department of English, Tamkang University, Tamshui, Taiwan, April (External)

2002
Provost’s Author Subvention Grant

University of Arizona, for The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy, (Internal, $750)

2001