2023-2024
Chosen for the inaugural class of the Provost’s Aspiring Leaders Academy, UT-Austin
2023-2024
Academy of Distinguished Teachers, which recognizes outstanding educators across the UT System academic institutions
2021-2022
2020-2021
Named a Provost’s Mentored Faculty Scholar, UT-Austin
2020-2021 Named a Provost’s Authors Fellow (summer salary and course release to develop a book-length manuscript), UT-Austin. Deferred to 2021-2022
2020
Sharon L. Dunwoody Award, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin – Madison. Given to doctoral graduates of the program who have excelled in research, teaching and/or service within 10 years of graduation
2018-2019
Faculty Research Award sabbatical, full course release for spring, UT-Austin
2017
Named a Provost’s Teaching Fellow, UT-Austin
2016
Regents Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Texas System Board of Regents highest honor awarded to faculty who have demonstrated extraordinary classroom performance and innovation in undergraduate instruction
2015-2016
Page Scholar, Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication, Pennsylvania State University, College of Communications
2015
Harry Ransom Center Humanities Institute Fellow, UT-Austin. Application-based program promoting research and collegiality across departments.
2015
Second-place paper, Public Relations Division of AEJMC
2015
Finalist, Moody College of Communication Teaching Excellence Award, UT-Austin
2015
Top Three Faculty Paper, Environmental Communication Division of the International Communication Association.
2015
Finalist, frank Prize in Public Interest Communications Research, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications
2014
Top three finalist, Outstanding Junior Scholar Award, Sponsored by The Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University/AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women
2014
UT-Austin Office of Graduate Studies Summer Research Assignment
2013-2014
Course Development Award, UT-Austin Office of Sustainability and Center for the Core Curriculum. Awarded one of three university-wide course development awards to develop a new undergraduate course focused on sustainability.
2013-2014
UT-Austin College of Communication Student Enrichment Funds Award to fund one graduate research assistant and three undergraduate research assistants.
2012-2013
Dean’s Fellow sabbatical appointment, full course release for fall semester, UT-Austin
2012
Finalist, Promising Professor award from the Mass Communication & Society Division and the Graduate Education Interest Group of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
2011-2012
Finalist, Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship, UT-Austin. Nominated by dean of the College of Communication for university-wide teaching award that recognizes excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level
2010-2011
Fellow, Center for Women’s & Gender Studies Faculty Development Program, UT-Austin
2010-2011
Finalist, Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship, UT-Austin. Nominated by dean of the College of Communication for university-wide teaching award that recognizes excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level