Awards
2007 NEH Summer Seminar Fellow, "The American Indian and
Ethnohistory" Project:
“Sagoyewatha as a Traditional Speaker of the Haudenosaunee.”
2004 Darwin Turner Award for Best Essay in African
American Review, 2003-4.
“‘He Made Us Laugh Some’: Frederick Douglass’s
Humor.”
2002 New York Historical Society, Delmas Fellow. Project:
“When America Meant North
America and South America: 1816-1826.”
2001 American Antiquarian Society, Peterson Fellow. Project:
“Pregnant Words: the Matrix of Women’s Oratory, 1800-1850.”