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Grants, Fellowships, Honors, and Awards

  • SSRC/NEH Sustaining Humanities Infrastructure Program (SHIP) – Pathways of Presencing – Toward Wholeness | Co-Principal Investigator with Ruth Nicole Brown | $99,946 grant to provide needed relief to the new Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS) in the College of Arts & Letters (CAL) at Michigan State University by supporting facilitated retreats, Charting Pathways of Intellectual Leadership fellows, and Graduate Student leadership development: https://www.ssrc.org/grantees/pathways-of-presencing-toward-wholeness/ | 2022-23

  • 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

  • Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HuMetricsHSS) – Phase III | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Public Knowledge Program | Co-Principal Investigator | $650,000 grant to expand the impact of the HuMetricsHSS values-enacted framework through a HuMetricsHSS Community Fellows Program and HuMetricsHSS working groups of Associate Provosts, Librarians, and Deans across the Big Ten Academic Alliance: http://humetricshss.org/. 2021-23

  • 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 | 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/. | 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 | 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/. | 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 | 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 | 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