Fellowships, Awards, Grants, and Honors

ACADEMIC

St. Joseph’s College         October 2020
Faculty Development Grant
Awarded for attendance at Bard Writer as Reader Workshop, MLA Workshop and Conference, and NeMLA Conference

St. Joseph’s College        November 2019
Faculty as Student Grant
        Awarded for enrollment in workshops for Quality Matters certification.

St. Francis College        November 2017
Faculty Development Grant
        Awarded for enrollment in two Quality Matters courses on teaching online.

Humanities NY        July 2017
Adult Reading and Discussion Series Grant
        Awarded to establish an independent Adult Reading and Discussion Group Series, Influential People II at St. Francis College for Academic Year 2017-2018.

St. Francis College       December 2016
Faculty Development Grant
        Awarded for attending Quinnipiac’s WAC Conference in November 2016.

Humanities NY        June 2016
Adult Reading and Discussion Series Grant
        Awarded to establish an independent Adult Reading and Discussion Group Series, Influential People at St. Francis College for Academic Year 2016-2017.

Sigma Tau Delta        November 2015
Faculty Inductee
        Inducted as a faculty member of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.

St. Francis College        October 2015
Faculty Research Grant
        Awarded for travel to visit Philadelphia’s Civil War Museum in May 2016. (Museum closed in March 2016, so unable to use.)

Humanities NY (Formerly New York Council for the Humanities)       August 2015 to Present
Public Scholar
        Promote the Humanities across New York State through facilitating presentations on American war writing, America in the 1940s, science fiction, and Sherlock Holmes in film and fiction.

New York State English Council        June 2015
2015 Educator of Excellence
        Awarded in recognition of excellence in teaching.

New York Council for the Humanities       June 2015
Adult Reading and Discussion Series Grant
        Awarded to establish an independent Adult Reading and Discussion Group Series, The Experience of World War II, at St. Francis College for Academic Year 2015-2016.

St. Francis College        March 2015
Faculty Development Grant
        Awarded for attending the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in June 2015. (Unable to attend.)

New York Council for the Humanities       January 2015 to April 2015
Adult Reading and Discussion Series Grant
        Awarded for a second session of the series Our World Remade: World War I at St. Francis College.

St. Francis College       December 2014
Faculty Development Grant
        Awarded for attending Quinnipiac’s WAC Conference in November 2014.

New York Council for the Humanities       September 2014 to December 2014
Adult Reading and Discussion Series Grant
        Awarded to bring the series Our World Remade: World War I at St. Francis College.

Digital Humanities Summer Institute       August 2014
Scholarship Recipient, Summer 2015 Institute
        Received scholarship to attend week-long workshop/panel on Feminist Scholarship and the Digital Humanities in Vancouver, British Columbia in June 2015. (Unable to attend.)

New York Council for the Humanities       January 2014 to May 2014
Adult Reading and Discussion Series Grant
        Awarded to bring the series Lincoln on the Civil War to St. Francis College.

St. Francis College        December 2013
Faculty Research Grant
        Awarded for travel to Washington, D.C. to visit the Library of Congress in March 2014.

New York Council for the Humanities        September 2013 to December 2013
Adult Reading and Discussion Series Grant
        Brought the series Making Sense of the Civil War to St. Francis College. This series was co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.

St. Francis College        May 2013
Member, Duns Scotus Honor Society
        Inducted as an honorary member of the College’s honor society. Nominated and elected by student members of the Honor Society.

St. Francis College        December 2012
Faculty Development Grant
        Awarded for travel to ALSCW conference in April 2013.

St. Francis College        December 2011
Faculty Development Grant
        Awarded for visit to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in May 2012.

St. Francis College        November 2009
Kappa Delta Pi
        Named an outstanding teacher by students in St. Francis College’s Xi Rho Chapter of the International Education Honor Society.

St. Francis College        March 2009
Education Society Honoree
        Selected by student members of the Education Society as a faculty honoree.

St. Francis College        January 2009
Faculty Development Grant
        Awarded for travel to MLA Conference in Los Angeles in January 2009.

Kingsborough Community College        September 2005 to May 2007
CUNY Writing Fellowship

CUNY Graduate Center        2007-2009
Alumni Scholarship Award

Pratt Library School        1998-2000
Merit Scholarship

Pratt Library School        1998-2000
Graduate Association Scholarship

CUNY Baccalaureate Program        Spring 1996 to graduation
Smith Academic Fellowship

Baruch College        May 1996
Outstanding Scholar


POETRY

Able Muse        October 2012
Able Muse Book Award for Poetry
       Honorable Mention for the collection Banishing the Muse.

Twin Cranes Press        July 2009
Moon Poem Contest/moonlit magazine
        Semi-finalist for the poem “Time and Tide.”

Key West Heritage House        April 2009
15th Annual Robert Frost Poetry Festival Poetry Contest
        Honorable Mention for the poem “Banishing the Muse.”

The Seacoast Writers Association        March 2009
19th Annual Poetry Contest
        1st Prize for “You Are Trapped in That Bright Moment Where You Learned Your Doom” and 3rd Prize for “Nondum Cognita.”

California State Poetry Society        September 2008
22nd Annual Poetry Contest
        Honorable Mention for the poem “Cabinet de Travail.”

“Discovery”/The Nation Poetry Contest        1996 and 1998
Semi-Finalist