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Awards

Honors
 

  • Richard Beale Davis Prize, 2016 best article of the year in Early American Literature for “Atlantic Aesthesis: Books and Sensus Communis in the New World,” Early American Literature 51.2 (2016): 367-395.
  • The Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, American Society for Theatre Research, 2014 for New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849
  • Finalist mention, 2015 John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association for New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849
  • Shortlist for 2014 Kenshur Prize from the Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, for New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849
  • University Excellence in Research and Creativity Award, Northeastern University, 2015
  • “Best Digital Humanities Project for Public Audiences” for Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive, with Ryan Cordell, David DeCamp, Kristi Girdharry, James McGrath, and Alicia Peaker, Digital Humanities Awards 2013, awarded February 2014
  • Digital Humanities Award from the Digital Library of the Caribbean for the Early Caribbean Digital Archive project, June 2013
  • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Excellence in Mentorship Award 2010-2011, awarded by the Graduate Caucus of ASECS
  • Society of Early Americanists Annual Essay Award, 2005 for “Republican Theatricality and Transatlantic Empire”
  • Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication in the Humanities, Yale University, 2003 for The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere

Fellowships and Grants
 

  • R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA , 2019-2020
  • Co-PI, Tier One Research and Mentoring Grant, 2018-19, with Laura Nelson, Moya Bailey, Meg Heckman, and Sarah Jackson, “Measuring Social Movement Success: Linguistic and Discursive Indicators of Social Change,” $50K.
  • Co-PI, Tier One Research Grant, 2017-2018, with Julia Flanders and Cody Dunne, Northeastern University, “Word Vector Analysis for TEI/XML: A user-friendly toolkit,”$50K
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute Director, “Space, Place, and the Humanities,” Summer 2017, $202K
  • Charles Warren Center Fellow, Harvard University, Spring 2015
  • Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Advanced Research Collaborative, the Graduate Center, City University of New York, Fall 2014
  • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Digital Innovation Fellowship, 2014-2015 for work on the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, $85K
  • Co-PI, Mellon Foundation Grant for Proteus Project, Exploring Big Data in the Humanities, 2014-2015, $500K
  • Northeastern University ADVANCE Mutual Mentoring Grant for Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, with Moya Bailey, Ryan Cordell, Julia Flanders, and Benjamin Schmidt, 2014-2015
  • Co-PI, Tier One Research Grant, 2014-2015, Northeastern University, for “Big Data and Text Curation: TEI and NLP Methods and Intersections,” $50K
  • Co-Project Director, “Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers,” National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, 2013-2014, $60K
  • Co-PI, Tier One Research Grant, 2013-2014, Northeastern University, for “Infectious Texts: Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers,” $50K
  • PI, Tier One Research Grant, 2012-2013, Northeastern University, for development of the Early Caribbean Digital Archive Project, $50K
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, 2010-2011
  • Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, 2009
  • Instructional Development Fund Grant for Archival Teaching Project, Northeastern University 2008-2009
  • Davis Educational Foundation Grant, Yale Electronic Libraries Initiative, 2005
  • A. Whitney Griswold Faculty Research Grant, Yale University, 2001, 2005
  • Frederick W. Hilles Publication Fund Grant, Yale University, 2003
  • Baker Steyer Fund Grant for course development, Yale University, 2001-02
  • Morse Junior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University, 2000-2001
  • Whitney Humanities Center Junior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University, 2000-2001
  • Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cornell University, 1995-97
  • Chancellor’s Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1993-94
  • Annette K. Baxter Travel Award, American Studies Association, 1993
  • Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1992-93