Grants, Fellowships, Honors, and Awards

  • Imagining America – Leading and Learning Initiative – Stories of Change – $2K grant to create and tell the story of the Charting Pathways of Intellectual Leadership framework of formative evaluation in higher education. | 2021

  • The Public Philosophy Journal | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Scholarly Communications and Information Technology Program | Principal Investigator | $400,000 grant to develop the a Collaborative Community Review application to support the open access, open peer review Public Philosophy Journal: http://www.publicphilosophyjournal.org (External link opens in a new window.) | 2020-22

  • Less Commonly Taught Languages Partnership – Phase II | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Higher Education Program | Principal Investigator | $2,500,000 grant to foster collaboration across the Big 10 Academic Alliance in the teaching and learning of less commonly taught languages with a focus on indigenous languages. | 2019-2023

  • Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HuMetricsHSS) – Phase II | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Scholarly Communications Program | Co-Principal Investigator | $695,000 grant to create and pilot a values-based framework that will enable humanities and social science scholars to tell more textured stories about the impact of their research and teaching: http://humetricshss.org/ (External link opens in a new window.). | 2019-2020

  • The Public Philosophy Journal | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Scholarly Communications and Information Technology Program | Principal Investigator | $282,000 grant to develop the open access, open peer review Public Philosophy Journal: http://www.publicphilosophyjournal.org (External link opens in a new window.) | 2017-19

  • Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HuMetricsHSS) – Phase I | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Scholarly Communications Program | Co-Principal Investigator | $309,000 grant to create and pilot a values-based framework that will enable humanities and social science scholars to tell more textured stories about the impact of their research and teaching: http://humetricshss.org/ (External link opens in a new window.). | 2017-19

  • Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa | Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH | 2017

  • Big Ten Academic Alliance Less Commonly Taught Languages Partnership | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Higher Education Program | Principal Investigator | $1,200,000 grant to foster collaboration across the CIC in the teaching and learning of less commonly taught languages. | 2016-18

  • The Public Philosophy Journal | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Scholarly Communications and Information Technology Program | Principal Investigator | $549,000 grant to develop the open access, open peer review Public Philosophy Journal: http://www.publicphilosophyjournal.org (External link opens in a new window.) | 2015-16

  • The Public Philosophy Journal | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Scholarly Communications and Information Technology Program | Principal Investigator | $236,000 grant to create the open access, open peer review Public Philosophy Journal: http://www.publicphilosophyjournal.org (External link opens in a new window.) | 2013-14

  • Education Technology Services Summer Faculty Fellowship | The Pennsylvania State University | 2009

  • Research and Professional Development Grant | Stockton College | 2002

  • Open Hearts, Open Minds | National Endowment for the Humanities | Associate Project Director, $145,000 grant to foster Holocaust Education in local middle schools | 2001

  • Research and Professional Development Mini Grant | Stockton College | 2001

  • Distinguished Faculty Fellowship | Stockton College | 2001

  • Research and Professional Development Grant | Stockton College | 2000

  • Alfred Schutz Memorial Dissertation Award | New School for Social Research | 1998

  • Short Term Travel Grant | Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD) | 1997

  • Sugihara Dissertation Fellowship | New School for Social Research | 1996

  • Dean’s Teaching Fellowship | Eugene Lang College, New School University | 1996

  • Summer Language Fellowship | Carl Schurz Gesellschaft, Bremen, Germany | 1994

  • Dean’s Tuition Fellowship | New School for Social Research | 1991-94

  • Summer Language Fellowship | Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD) Herder Institute, Leipzig, Germany | 1992

  • Robert D. Remsberg Award for Excellence in Philosophy | Wittenberg University | 1991