Grants and Awards

External Grants

  • “Playing in the Past,” Public Engagement with Research, University of Southampton (UK), £2300, 33% effort (November 2020-July 2021).
  • “The Futures of STS in Engineering and Polytechnic Universities,” National Science Foundation Conference Grant, Missouri S&T, $36,502, 50% effort. (January 2020-September 2022).
  • Fellow, Harris Manchester College Summer Research Institute, Oxford University. Funded by the College of Arts, Sciences, and Business, Missouri S&T, $3,800, 100% effort. (July 2019).
  • “Hotels as Sites of Knowledge Creation in Archaeology: Keeping Knowledge in situ,” Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma, $2,500, PI 100% effort (October 2018).
  • “Cultural Bridges: The Humanities and Engineering in Latin America,” National Endowment for the Humanities, $99,772, Co-PI 10% effort (August 2017-August 2019).
  • “Developing a Minor in Latin American Studies for Technical Applications,” Undergraduate International Studies Foreign Language, US Department of Education, $189,872, Co-PI 23% effort (October 2016- August 2018)

Awards

  • 2022 Faculty Excellence Award
  • 2022 Faculty Service Award, Department of History and Political Science
  • 2021 Faculty Service Award
  • 2021 Constance R. Brown Faculty Excellence Award, Department of History and Political Science
  • 2020 President’s Innovative Teaching Award, University of Missouri System
  • 2020 Faculty Service Award, Department of History and Political Science
  • 2019-2020 Outstanding Teaching Award
  • 2019 Woman of the Year
  • 2019 Constance R. Brown Faculty Excellence Award, Department of History and Political Science
  • 2019 Faculty Teaching Award
  • 2018 Experiential Learning Award
  • 2018 Faculty Service Award, Department of History and Political Science
  • 2017 Women’s Inspirational Award
  • 2016 Faculty Teaching Award
  • 2014 W. E. & Peggy Wiggins Faculty Excellence Award, Department of History and Political Science