Funding & Awards

Grants, Fellowships, Honors, and Awards

         

AWARDS
2024	Educator of the Year. I-POP (Indigenous Pop) Cultural Award.
2023	Crandall Family Associate Professorship Chair. Duke University
	Top 5% of Faculty: Student Evaluations. Duke University
	CMA Outstanding Faculty/Staff Award. Duke University
2022	President’s Award. American Anthropological Association
2020	Southern Anthropological Society’s Mooney Award winner for Sovereign Entrepreneurs
2019	Association for the Study of Food and Society award for best article of 2018 published in Food, Culture & Society for Frybread Wars
2014	Two Thumbs-Up Teaching Award. U of SC.
2012	Honor Society. Order of the Grail-Valkyries at UNC–Chapel Hill
2011	Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Honorable Mention
	Graduate Student Prize. The Great Frybread Uprising in the Food Cultures Symposium at UNC–Chapel Hill
	Royster Society of Fellows Ambassador Award at UNC–Chapel Hill
FUNDING
2022	Development Grant
2020	University of South Carolina Racial Justice & Equity Research Fund. Co-PI with Jane Przybysz and Stephen Criswell. Indigenous Discovery Tour.
2019/2020	Justice, Equality, and Community Mellon Foundation grant: Public Humanities Practitioner in Residence. Co-PI.
2019/2020	Justice, Equality, and Community Mellon Foundation grant: Collaborative Projects Grant. Co-PI.
2020	AAA OpEd Project Scholarship
2015	McCausland Faculty Fellowship
	University of South Carolina ASPIRE – I, TRACK 1. PI
	University of South Carolina Summer Stipend Grant for NEH nomination. PI.
2013	Two Thumbs-Up Teaching Award. USC
2012	Honor Society. Order of the Grail-Valkyries at UNC–Chapel Hill
2011	Performing Arts Special Activities Fund. On behalf of First Nations Graduate Circle. Co-PI
	Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Honorable Mention
	Graduate Student Prize. The Great Frybread Uprising in the Food Cultures Symposium at UNC–Chapel Hill
	North Carolina Native American Incentive Grant (summer term)
2007-10	National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2010	Future Faculty Fellowship Program
	Royster Society of Fellows Sequoyah Dissertation Fellowship
	Cherokee Nation Education Corporation Nell D. Brown Memorial Award
	Cherokee Nation Education Corporation Mission Award
	North Carolina Native American Incentive Grant (summer term)
2009	Archie Green Occupational Folklife Graduate Fellowship
	Lynn Reyer Award for Tribal Community Development
2007	North Carolina Native American Incentive Grant
2005-6	Dr. David McNelis Scholars of Tomorrow
2005-6	Special Graduate School Doctoral Merit Assistanceship
1992	Michigan Scholars Scholarship: Tuition