Fellowships & Research Support
Recent Fellowships:
2024-2025: Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ
2024-2025: Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellowship, Huntington Library (Declined)
2020-2021: Barra Sabbatical Fellow, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
2020: Library Company of Philadelphia, NEH Postdoctoral Fellow (Postponed to Spring 2022)
2020: Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow at Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK
2013-2014: Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
2012-2013: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Scholars-in-Residence Fellowship
2010-2011: Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis Faculty Fellow, Rutgers University
2009-2010: Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Fellow, Harvard University
2007-2009: Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow for Faculty Diversity, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2005-2006: Ida. B. Jackson Dissertation Fellow, University of California Office of the President, UC Berkeley
2003-2004: Fulbright Fellow, Barbados, West Indies
Recent Honors and Awards:
2024: Elected member, American Antiquarian Society
2023: Elected Fellow, Society of American Historians
2018-: Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
2017: Special Achievement Award for Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, The Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes, Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Rutgers University
2012 Andrés Mattei-Neville Hall Article Prize, Association of Caribbean Historians
Book Prizes for Dispossessed Lives:
2017: Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize, Association of Black Women Historians
2017: Barbara T. Christian Best Humanities Book Prize, Caribbean Studies Association
2017: Berkshires Conference of Women Historians First Book Prize