Master Teaching Fellow for the Humanities, Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, 1998-1999

Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Fellowship from Vanderbilt University, 1994-1998

University Graduate Fellowship from Vanderbilt University, 1994-1998

Senator C. Hieronymus Award for the best essay in the medical humanities for “‘Woman Goes Forth to Battle with Goliath’: Mary Baker Eddy, Medical Science, and Sentimental Invalidism,” 1998

Susan Ford Wiltshire Prize for the best graduate student paper dealing with women's issues for “ ‘I Am a Woman’s Rights’: Sojourner Truth’s Negotiations of Cultural Constraints,” 1996

National Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship, 1994