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