Fellowships and Awards
2024
6th Biophilia Award for Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences, BBVA Foundation, Madrid, Spain: €100,000
Fondation Francqui International Visiting Professorship, University of Ghent, Belgium
2023
Center for the Advancement of Teaching Award: $7,100
2022 - 2023
Teagle Foundation Grant: $5,000
2013
Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Award: $175,000
Urban Humanities Course Development Grant: $8,000
2011 - 2012
Guggenheim Fellowship
Faculty Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center (declined)
2010 - 2011
Martha Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow, Stanford University
2001 - 2002
Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies
Research Fellowship, National Humanities Center
1998
Finalist, Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language Association
1994
Raymond MacDonald Alden Dissertation Prize, Stanford University
1992 - 1993
Mabelle McLeod-Lewis Dissertation Fellowship, McLeod-Lewis Memorial Fund
1991
Conference Travel Grants, Canada/France, Stanford University
1990 - 1991
Theodor H. Geballe Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center
Whiting Fellowship, Stanford University (declined)
1987 - 1990
Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University
1987 - 1990
Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University
1984 - 1985
Tuition Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara
1983 - 1984
German Academic Exchange Fellowship (DAAD), UC Santa Barbara
1981 - 1982
German Academic Exchange Fellowship (DAAD), Université de Lyon II