Awards & Grants

Grant Funding History

  • UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship ($18,000) (2024)

  • UBC CENES Ulrich Maché Memorial Fund for Material Acquisition ($500) (2023)

  • UBC Open Educational Resources Rapid Innovation Grant for “Open Access Teaching Dossier for Different from the Others” ($1,933) (2023)

  • Arts Research Abroad Grant for “Multicultural Vienna” Study Abroad Program, submitted with Uma Kumar ($48,500) (2023-24)

  • SSHRC Exchange – Arts Visiting Speaker Grant for talk and workshop with Erin McGlothlin, submitted with Braden Russell ($2,000) (2023)

  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers for Divinatory Cultural Techniques: Queer Media Engagement, 1900-1933 ($49,784) (2023-26)

  • Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation grant for Tetka Theory: A Queer Life in the Bosnian Diaspora ($25,000) (2023-24)

  • Swiss National Science Foundation Grant for “Soziale und narrative Ökonomien: Grimmelshausens Courasche intersektional” [Social and Narrative Economies: Intersectional Approaches to Grimmelshausen’s Courasche], submitted with Daniela Fuhrmann ($10,000) (2023)

  • SSHRC Connection Grant for “Thinking with Lauren Berlant,” submitted with Simone Pfleger, Carrie Smith, Hester Baer ($24,791) (2023)

  • SSHRC Exchange Grant: UBC Arts International Conference Travel ($2,000) (2022)

  • UBC Scholarly Publication Fund for Anders als die Andern ($5,000) (2022)

  • UBC Students as Partners Grant to for “Sexuality and Weimar Cinema” ($6420.60) (2022)

  • SSHRC Explore – Arts Research Grant for “Hermeneutic Intimacy: Reading the Frail Body of August von Platen” ($4,000) (2022)

  • DAAD Research Stay Grant for Divinatory Cultural Techniques and Structures of Queer Intimacy, 1900–1933 ($7,400) (2022)

  • UBC Work Learn Program Student Subsidy Program for Assistant to the Director of Undergraduate Studies ($1,125) (2022)

  • SSHRC Explore Grant – Arts Research Assistant Support Grant for “Black Germans in Canada” ($4,992) (2022)

  • UBC Advanced Educational Renewal Grant for “Renewal of German Undergraduate Program,” submitted with Kyle Frackman, Caroline Rieger, and Jason Lieblang ($49,037) (2020-21)

  • UBC CENES Research Grant for Anders als die Andern ($1,000) (2020)

  • SSHRC Explore Grant – Arts Research for “Fandom’s Minutia: Palm Readings in Weimar Film Magazine Culture” ($3,996) (2020)

  • SSHRC Connection Grant for “The Past and Futures of Queer German Studies,” submitted with Kyle Frackman ($14,942) (2020)

  • DAAD Conference Support Grant for “The Past and Futures of Queer German Studies,” submitted with Kyle Frackman ($5,531) (2020)

  • UBC CENES Ulrich Maché Memorial Fund for Material Acquisition ($500) (2019)

  • UBC Scholarly Publication Fund for Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion($3,500) (2019)

  • SSHRC Exchange Arts Workshop and Visiting Speaker Grant for Collaboration with Regine Criser and for Criser’s workshop ($2,000) (2019)

  • Hampton New Faculty Research Award for “Queer Melodrama and Weimar Cultural Imagination.” ($10,000) (2018-20)

  • SHSU EURECA Award for collaborative research among undergraduate students and faculty. Submitted with Jeff Littlejohn. Title of Project: “Texas-German Immigrant Responses to Lynchings in Central Texas.” (US$8,000, declined) (2018)

  • SHSU Teaching Innovation Grant for “Reimagining the Language Lab Experience.” Submitted with Leif French, Maria Barker, and Tatiana Artamonova. (US$10,000) (2017-18)

  • SHSU Faculty Research Grant for Anxious Telling: Fragile Literary Culture in Early Wilhelmine Germany (US$5,000) (2017)

  • SHSU EURECA Award funded by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences for collaborative research among undergraduate students and faculty. Submitted with Leif French. Title of Project: “The Development of L2 Oral Proficiency: Comparing Short-Term Study Abroad and Domestic Learning Contexts.” (US$10,000) (2017)

  • Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Conference Support Grant for “Diversity, Decolonialization, and the German Curriculum.” Submitted with Regine Criser. (US$3,000) (2017)

  • American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Conference Support Grant for “Diversity, Decolonialization, and the German Curriculum.” Submitted with Regine Criser (US$1,000) (2017)

  • Deutsch macht Spaß Grant from the American Association of Teachers of German (2016)

  • Delta Phi Alpha Chapter Grant for Student Symposium “Contemporary Germany and the Syrian Refugee Crisis,” Sam Houston State University (2015)

  • Mellon Summer Dissertation Seminar, Washington University (2015)

  • The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Washington University (2014-15)

  • Center for the Humanities Reading Group Grant, “New Trends in Cognitive Narrative Theory,” Washington University (2013-15)

  • Fulbright Research Fellowship, University of Tübingen (2012-13)

  • Humanities Digital Workshop Summer Fellowship, Washington University (2011)

  • Bosch Foundation Weekend Seminar Grant, German Literature Archive (DLA) Marbach (2011)

  • The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences University Fellowship, Washington University (2009-10)

 

Awards

  • Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize from the DAAD in the Junior Category (2023) link to announcement & speech

  • UBC Dept of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies Outstanding Mentorship Award (2022)

  • UBC Green College, Leading Scholar (2019-21)

  • Award for Achievement in Teaching Excellence in German, Washington University (2014)

  • Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership Award, University of Illinois (2009)

  • Robert Kauf Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Illinois (2008)