Select Grants & Awards

Detail from "Carolina Parrot" in Frederick Rathbone's Old Wedgwood: The Decorative or Artistic Ceramic Work, in Colour and Relief, Invented and Produced by Josiah Wedgwood (1898), Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

Research Fellowships

2023 Summer Doctoral Fellowship - $7,333

Graduate College, University of Delaware

Supported dissertation research/writing from a competitive, university-wide applicant pool

2022 Summer Research Fellowship - $4,000

University of Delaware/Delaware Historical Society

Project Title: "Material Genealogy: Tracing the Historical Occupancy of the Cook-Simms House"

2020 Edward Porter Alexander Internship Award - $1,500

University of Delaware, Museum Studies

Supported 2020 virtual summer internship at the Delaware Historical Society

2019 Summer Research Assistantship - $4,500

University of Delaware, Dr. Iain Crawford

Researched and catalogued British responses/views on the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) within British periodicals (quarterlies, monthlies, weeklies)

2017 Graduate Research Grant - $1,000

University of St. Thomas

Project Title: "The Disruptive Power of Frame Narratives in Mary Shelley's Keepsake Tales"

Travel Grants

2025 Graduate Student Travel Award - $1,100

Department of English, University of Delaware

Presented original research at 2025 NCSA conference, "Fusions of Culture, Time and Space," in New Orleans, LA

2025 Barbara Quinn Schmidt & Josef Altholz Conference Travel Award - $300

Research Society of Victorian Periodicals

Presented original research at the RSVP 2025 conference, "Voices and Visions of the Nineteenth-century Periodical Press," in Chicago, IL

2023 Graduate Research Travel Award - $737

Department of English & Center for Material & Cultural Studies, University of Delaware

Supported archival work on "Aunt Clara" and the "Dakota Farmer Collection" At South Dakota State University in service to my dissertation

2023 Graduate Student Travel Award - $400

Department of English, University of Delaware

Supported archival work on "Aunt Clara" and the "Dakota Farmer Collection" at South Dakota State University in service to my dissertation

2022 Professional Development Grant - $800

Graduate College, University of Delaware

Supported participation in "African-American Print Cultures in the 19th-Century United States," Rare Book School @ the University of Virginia

2019 Professional Development Grant - $800

Office of Graduate and Professional Education, University of Delaware

Presented original research at RSVP 2019 conference, "Work/Leisure, Duty/Pleasure" in Brighton, UK

2019 Grad Student Travel Bursary - $250

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)

Presented original research at NASSR 2019 conference, "Romantic Elements" in Chicago, IL

2016 Conference Travel Grant - $500

Department of English, University of St. Thomas

Presented original research at the 2016 Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature conference in Brookings, SD

Outside The Royal Pavilion in Brighton, UK

Select Awards & Honors

2014-2017 Graduate Departmental Fellowship

University of St. Thomas, Department of English

Competitive multi-year tuition waiver/reimbursement

2010 Christian Weintz Award for Excellence in English Studies

Bethel University, Department of English

Awarded annually to a graduating student who exemplifies excellence in literary scholarship

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