​Honors, Awards & Fellowships

Camargo Foundation International Residency Fellowship (Cassis, France), 2024-25
(1 of 14 fellows selected from some 1,000 applicants from around the world)
  (Mapping Métis Montana: Reclaiming Urban Indigenous Space)

National Council on Public History Excellence in Consulting Award, 2023
  (Black Montana's Heritage Places)

Vernacular Architecture Forum Orlando Ridout V Fieldwork Fellowship, 2022
  (African American Properties in Virginia City, MT NHL)

Vernacular Architecture Forum Orlando Ridout V Fieldwork Fellowship, 2021
  (Mapping Black Wyoming, reconnaissance survey)

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)
   (Northern Plains Borders and the People in Between, 1860-1940)

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)