AWARDS, HONORS, & LISTINGS

2014 Faculty Award for Excellence in Engaged Scholarship, Nominated Spring 2014

Kolvenbach Fellow, Loyola University Maryland, Spring 2013

Tenure track research leave, Loyola University Maryland, Spring 2012

Editor’s Choice Collection Award, Urban Education (Journal) 2012

I am Loyola Award, Loyola University Maryland, December 2010

Emerging Scholar in Service-Learning, University of Minnesota, June 2009

Academic Service-Learning Research and Scholarship Award, Eastern Michigan University, April 2009

Emerging Scholar in Service-Learning, Brandeis University, July 2008

American Educational Research Association (AERA), Division K Affirmative Action Committee, Travel Stipend Award for Minority Junior Scholars, November 2007

Faculty of the Year, Graduate School of Education, Hamline University, May 2007 (received as a graduate student—first non-full-time faculty member to win this award)

John Wesley Leadership and Service Award, Hamline University, May 2006

Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program, Japan, October 2005

Whitney and Elizabeth Macmillan Foundation Outstanding Educator Award Nominee, 2005

Walt Disney Company National Teacher of the Year Nominee, 2004-2005 & 2001-2002 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (Leadership Program for Teachers), Costa Rica Environmental Science Institute, 2000