Awards

HONORS AND AWARDS

Dr. William Barzak Memorial Award for Best Essay in 16th– or 17th-Century Literature, Texas A&M Department of English. 2025.

Gordone Graduate Creative Writing Award (Poetry), Texas A&M Department of English. 2025.

Honorable Mention, Emerging Researcher Open Scholarship Award, Canadian Social Knowledge Institute. Recognized as 1 of 5 international honorees for development of Points Like A Man database. 2024.

Dr. William Barzak Memorial Award for Best Essay in 16th– or 17th-Century Literature, Texas A&M Department of English. 2023.

Dr. Stanley L. Archer Memorial Award for Best Essay in Renaissance or Early Modern Literature, Texas A&M Department of English. 2023.

Gordone Graduate Creative Writing Award (Poetry), Texas A&M Department of English. 2023.

Honorable Mention, Gordone Graduate Creative Writing Award (Playwriting), Texas A&M Department of English. 2023.

Finalist, Best Graduate Student Essay Award, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Recognized as 1 of 3 finalists. 2023.

TxETA Higher Education Research Conference First Place Scholarly Debut Award. 2022.

Mary Baldwin Andrew Gurr Award for Outstanding Thesis. 2022.

Southeastern Theatre Conference Young Scholars Award. 2022.

UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor’s Award. 2018. University-wide award given for significant contributions to university student life. Received 1 of 70 awards given, out of total student body of 28,000. 

UNC Chapel Hill Order of the Golden Fleece, Argonaut 2089. 2017. University’s oldest and highest honorary society. Recognized as 1 of 5 junior students from class of 4,300 for significant contributions to university.

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

Texas A&M Women’s and Gender Studies Dissertation Fellowship. 2025.

Texas A&M Center of Digital Humanities (CoDHR) Research Fellowship. 2025.

Texas A&M Center of Digital Humanities (CoDHR) Software and License Award. 2025.

Texas A&M Kelsey Fellowship in Book History. 2025.

Texas A&M Graduate School Research and Presentation Travel Grant. 2025.

Texas A&M Center of Digital Humanities (CoDHR) Research Fellowship. 2023-2024.

Texas A&M Center of Digital Humanities (CoDHR) Research Fellowship. 2024-2025.

Texas A&M Glasscock Center for Humanities Research Graduate Research Fellowship. 2024-2025.

Texas A&M Center of Digital Humanities (CoDHR) Summer Technical Assistance Grant. 2023.

Folger Shakespeare Library Grant-in-Aid for “Rac(e)ing the Shakespearean Archive: Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction New Orleans.” 2023.

Texas A&M Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts Doctoral Research Fellowship. 2022-2023.

North American Victorian Studies Association Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant. 2022.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Short-Term Research Fellowship. 2022-2023.

Texas A&M Department of English Professional Development Support Grant. 2022. Awarded for travel to “On Stage: Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century America.”

Texas A&M Department of English Graduate Conference Travel Grant. 2022. Awarded four times.

Texas A&M World Shakespeare Bibliography Online Doctoral Fellowship. 2022-2023.

Texas A&M Association of Former Students / College of Liberal Arts University Merit Fellowship. 2021-2026. Highest university-wide fellowship offered to incoming graduate students.

Mary Baldwin Shakespeare and Performance Graduate Conference Travel Grant. 2020.

Mary Baldwin Shakespeare and Performance Graduate Merit Fellowship. 2019-2021.

Mary Baldwin Shakespeare and Performance Carpenter Scholarship. 2019-2021.

Folger Shakespeare Library National Endowment for the Humanities Grant-in-Aid for “Opening the Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama.” 2017.

UNC Chapel Hill Anne L. and S. Epes Robinson Honors Research Fellowship. 2016. Awarded for project researching prompt books of King Lear at Folger Shakespeare Library and American Shakespeare Center.

UNC Chapel Hill Lillian Chason Excellence Scholarship for Dramatic Art. 2016-2017. Highest department-wide scholarship offered to students.

UNC Chapel Hill Andy Griffith Scholarship for Dramatic Art. 2015-2018. Awarded three times.