Grants
| 2020-present | Migration and changing social structures: Marshallese students and new immigrant destinations. Joint research grant with Elise Berman (UNCC-Anthropology) and Vicki Collet (UArk-Education). National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration. |
| 2020-2021 | Language, race, and changing social structures in new immigrant destinations: A study of rising Marshallese kindergarteners and their speech. Joint Faculty Research Grant with Elise Berman (UNCC-Anthropology) |
| 2010-2011 | Dialect Diversity in Charlotte, North Carolina. Faculty Research Grant (UNCC) |
| 2007-2008 | Sound Change in Canadian English. Research Grant. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Institutional Grant (SIG). #484134 |
| 2006 | American Dialect Society Student Travel Grant |
| 2001 | Michigan State University recruitment grant |
Fellowships
| 2006-2008 | Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto |
| Summer 2006 | Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Michigan State University |
Awards and Scholarships
| 2017 | English Graduate Student Association Teacher of the Year Award (UNCC) |
| 2013-2014 | Frances Lumsden Gwynn Award, research funding (UNCC) |
| 2013 | Junior Faculty Development Award leave, 1 semester (UNCC) |
| 2006-2009 | Honorary Presidential Membership in American Dialect Society |
| Summer 2004 | Fulbright-Hayes Group Project Abroad Scholarship to Tanzania |
| 2003-2004 | Year-long Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Scholarship, Swahili |
