Lewis K. and Sibyl Gordon Prize for best book about the Caribbean, awarded by the Caribbean Studies Association for American Imperialism’s Undead, 2017.
University Scholar of the Year Award, Florida Atlantic University. One award is given university-wide to a professor at each rank: I was selected at the Associate Professor Rank for 2015.
Peace, Justice and Human Rights Faculty Fellow, Florida Atlantic University, 2014-2015.
Scholar-in-Residence, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2013-2014.
Lifelong Learning Society Faculty Research and Travel Grant for research in New York. Granted by the Dorothy Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University. 2012.
Invited to lead National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Topic: “Exploring the Global Caribbean through Literary and Theoretical Texts.” 2011.
University Scholar of the Year Award, Florida Atlantic University. One award is given university-wide to a professor at each rank: I was selected at the Assistant Professor Rank for 2010.
Selected for National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Topic: “Slaves, Soldiers, Rebels: Currents of Black Resistance in the Tropical Atlantic, 1760 – 1888.” 2009.
American Council of Learned Societies Fellow. Awarded to complete work on Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere. 2008-2009.
Lifelong Learning Society Faculty Research and Travel Grant for research in Kingston, Jamaica. Granted by the Dorothy Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University. 2008.
Tinker Field Research Grant for research in Havana, Cuba. Granted by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, SUNY at Stony Brook. 2003.
Fellowship for study at School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. Granted by the Humanities Institute, SUNY at Stony Brook. 2002.