An Award-Winning Teacher, Scholar, & Author
2021 Outstanding Book Award for Acts of Resistance: Subversive Teaching in the English Language Arts Classroom, Society of Professors of Education
2020 Gary Moorman Early Career Literacy Scholar Award, American Reading Forum
2020 Early Career Teaching Award, College of Human Sciences, Iowa State University
2020 Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies SIG's Early Career Award, American Educational Research Association
2019 Thomas N. Urban Research Award, Iowa Academy of Education
2012 Teacher of Teachers Award, Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School
2009 Diane Kent-Parker First Year Teacher Award, Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School
2008 North Carolina Teaching Fellow, NC State University
2007 Study abroad scholarship recipient, Oxford University