D-A-CH Research Project: “Holocaust Education” (Research Project Proposal, submitted for review, June 2014)
Summer Research Grant, Concordia Language Villages/Concordia College, Bemidji, MN, July 2012. Visiting research fellowship for study on teaching cultural competence via foreign language instruction.
Faculty Research Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst DEFA Film Library/German and Scandinavian Studies Department. Visiting research fellowship at the DEFA Film Library. $20,000, co-funded by the Max Kade Foundation and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. June 2010-July 2011.
Research Associate, Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center. Research fellowship for completion of my manuscript. FCWRC, Mt. Holyoke, Mass. (2010-2011).
Research Challenge Grant, Research Money for New Projects, AY 2009-2010, Ohio University/Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (Travel costs for History of Anti-Darwinism project at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Moulis, France; $2,500; trips undertaken August and December 2009, resulting in article; subsequent trips for April and July 2010.
Visiting Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – Moulis, 2009-present. (Residential Fellowship for work on the history of science in the cold war at the Moulis Subterranean Laboratory, summers and winters.)
Fulbright Senior Research Scholar Award, Research Award September 2008 – Feb. 2009, (June 2010), 3,000 Euros/month) in Berlin and Potsdam to continue primary source research on book (“Princes and Princesses under Socialism: Sex, Gender, and Valuta in DEFA Films, 1946-1989”). Matching funds from the College of Arts and Sciences for the full academic year ($10,000).
Ohio University Research Council, Research Award for beginning book on DEFA children’s films ($7,500) Summer 2007 (one of ten recipients of thirty applications).
Ohio University “Office of Nationally Competitive Awards Outstanding Service Award” Ohio University (AY 2007-08) (One of five professors across university who received this award for work mentoring outstanding students for competitive research grants) $300.
Ohio University “University Professor Teaching Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence” Ohio University (AY 2006-07) (One of five professors across university who received this student-organized award; total university student community approx. 22,000) $2,000
Junior Faculty Research Leave, College of Arts and Science, Ohio University (Spring quarter 2006) (Granted to approx. 10 faculty in Arts and Sciences by Dean’s Office to finish academic projects – in my case to finish final draft and index of book)
National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, NAE, New York (2003-2004) (The premiere foundation for work related to education; of 30 award winners from a pool of 300 applicants I was one of three historians) ($50,000 plus expenses)