Honors, Awards & Fellowships
Getty Residential Scholar (Los Angeles, CA), 2025-26
American Academy in Rome, Rome Prize (first alternate), 2025-26
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (finalist), 2025-26
Camargo Foundation International Residency Fellowship (Cassis, France), 2025
(1 of 14 fellows selected from some 1,000 applicants from around the world)
Humanities Montana Public Humanities Fellowship, 2025
National Council on Public History Excellence in Consulting Award, 2023
(Black Montana's Heritage Places)
Vernacular Architecture Forum Orlando Ridout V Fieldwork Fellowship, 2022
Vernacular Architecture Forum Orlando Ridout V Fieldwork Fellowship, 2021
Vernacular Architecture Forum Paul Buchanan Award, 2019
(Montana African American Heritage project)
National Council on Public History Excellence in Consulting Award, 2018
American Association for State and Local History Leadership in History Award of Excellence, 2018
(Montana African American Heritage project)
Abigail Reynolds Hodgen Publication Award, 2015
Western History Dissertation Workshop, Yale, 2015 (1 of 5 dissertations selected from around the country and beyond)
Hildebrand Canadian Studies Dissertation Fellowship, 2011-2012
Hildebrand Canadian Studies Dissertation Fellowship, 2010-2011
History Department Continuing Graduate Fellowship, 2010
Hildebrand Canadian Studies Graduate Research Fellowship, 2010
History Department Dissertation Fellowship, 2009-2010
Lowenthal Prize, 2009
(for best UC Berkeley graduate student essay in Theory, Culture and Politics)
Montana Historical Society Excellence in Research Award, 2009
History Department Continuing Graduate Fellowship, 2008-2009
U. Saskatchewan Otipimsuak U.S. Research Grant, Fall 2008
U.C. Berkeley Graduate Division Summer Grant, 2008
U. Saskatchewan Otipimsuak Canada Research Grant, Summer 2008
U. Saskatchewan Otipimsuak U.S. Research Grant, Spring 2008
Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, 2006-2007
Kathryn McLeod Graduate Fellowship, 2005-2006
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2005
(for excellence in teaching, awarded to less than 10% of Berkeley Graduate Student Instructors)
Summer Dissertation Prospectus Fellowship, 2004
Erasmus Scholarship, University of Montana Law School, 1999 (declined)
Cynthia Herbig Public Service Prize, University of Montana Law School, 1999 (declined)