Awards

Grants & Fellowships

2024 Naclerio Faculty Scholars Award, The Richard and Barbara Naclerio Faculty Scholars Program

2024 Faculty Research Fellow, Center for Teaching and Learning

2023 Faculty Fellow, Inclusive Excellence Fellows Program

2023 Research Fellow, Engendering Success in STEM Consortium

2020 President’s Postdoctoral Scholars Program, The Ohio State University    

2019 Inclusive Mathematics Environments (IME) Early Career Fellowship, the Mindset Scholars Network & Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

2019 Hedwig Hass Turkenkopf Fellowship, Associate Alumnae of Douglass College 

2018 Gordon Kato Summer Fellowship, Indiana University

2015 Research Fellow, College Transition Collaborative

2015 Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation

2012 Aresty Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Rutgers University

Research Recognition Awards

2023 SAGE Emerging Scholar Award, recognizing outstanding achievements by early career PhD scholars (between 0 and 3 years Post-PhD) in social and personality psychology, including contributions to teaching, research, or service to the field, Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

2022          Edward F. Hayes Graduate Forum Oral Presentation Competition (1st Place in the Postdoctoral Scholars STEAM category), for “Developing the social identity threat concerns (SITC) scale: An identity-flexible, contextually sensitive self-report measure of threat,” CGS, Office of Research and Graduate School, The Ohio State University.

2020 Women’s Research Poster Competition (1st Place in the Social Sciences Category), for Counterfeit diversity: How strategically misrepresenting gender diversity dampens organizations’ perceived sincerity and elevates women’s identity threat concerns,” Center of Excellence for Women & Technology

2020 Graduate Student Research Award, for “Counterfeit diversity: How strategically misrepresenting gender diversity dampens organizations’ perceived sincerity and elevates women’s identity threat concerns,” Midwestern Psychological Association

2019 Self & Identity Preconference Poster Award, for “Counterfeit diversity: How strategically misrepresenting gender diversity dampens organizations’ perceived sincerity and elevates women’s identity threat concerns Society for Personality and Social Psychology

2017 Graduate Student Paper Award, for “Marriage equality: On the books and on the ground? An experimental audit study of beliefs and behavior towards same-sex and interracial couples in the wedding industry,” Midwestern Psychological Association

2015 Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Poster Award, for “Creating better confrontations: The role of context-focused confrontations in addressing racial bias,” Indiana University

2012 Henry Rutgers Scholar Award for an Outstanding Honors Thesis, Rutgers University

2012 John R.Z. Abela Award for Excellence in Research in Clinical Psychology, Psychology Department, Rutgers University

Leadership, Teaching, and Speaking Awards

2015 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, Indiana University

2012 Edele Neilsen Prize in Speech, Douglass Residential College

2012 Shelia Kelly Hampton Student Leadership Prize, Douglass Residential College

2011 Cap and Skull Senior Honor Society, Rutgers University

2011 Paul Robeson Scholar, Rutgers University

Travel Awards

2021 Professional Development Award for Statistical Training, Postdoctoral Association at OSU

2017 Graduate and Professional Student Government Travel Award, Indiana University 

2016 Travel Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology              

2015 Graduate Student Travel Award, The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

2015 Provost’s Travel Awards for Women in Science, Indiana University (6x  recipient)   


Academic Excellence Awards

2011 Psi Chi Honor Society Inductee

2011 Rosalind S. Myers Scholarship for academic promise, Douglass Residential College

2011 Ruth Kennedy Scholarship for academic success, the American Association of University Women

2010 Jessie Munger Scholarship for deserving Douglass College students, Douglass Residential College

2010 Academic Excellence Award for maintaining the highest standards of academic excellence, Rutgers University

2009 School of the Arts and Sciences Honors Program Inductee, Rutgers University