Select Honors & Awards
- John and Elizabeth Phillips Dissertation Year Fellowship (2015-2016)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA) Mentorship Award (2015)
- Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI) Fellow (2014)
- Phi Beta Mu, Alpha Chapter (2014)
- Goldman Sachs Multicultural Junior Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (2013)
- Golden Key International Honor Society (2012)
- Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce Scholar (2011)
- Fulbright Alumni Ambassador (2011)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Summer Pre-Doctoral Institute Award (2010)
- Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Indonesia (2009)
- Ronald E. McNair Scholar (2006)
- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Gates Millennium Scholarship (2003)