Grants & Awards
Awards and Fellowships
2026-2027 — Cheryl Wall Faculty Fellow,Rutgers University
2025 — Rutgers University Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, Rutgers University, New Brunswick ($1,000)
2024-2025 — Chancellor’s Scholars-in-Residence Fellowship, Rutgers University, Newark ($15,000)
Grants
2025 — Project for Empty Space - Newark Grounds (Lives in Translation with the Design Consortium | Lighting Installation; co-PIs Jennifer Austin and Chantal Fischzang) ($40,000)
2025 — The Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America (CPRA) (The politics of multilingualism in New Jersey: Mapping linguistic diversity and identities; co-PI Jennifer Austin) Rutgers University, Newark ($22,280)
2025 — The Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Advocacy (IDEA) Innovation Grant Program (A Feeling Of Itself: A Multilingual, Multimedia Exhibition; co-PIs Jennifer Austin and Chantal Fischzang) Rutgers University, Newark ($5,000)
2025 — 2025 Dean’s Travel Fund, Rutgers University, Newark ($868)
2025 — Cultural Programming Grant (Food in Translation; co-PI Taja-Nia Henderson) Rutgers University, Newark ($2,250)
2024-2025 — Mutual Mentoring Team Grant (If You Build It: Managing Large Scale Events in the Public Humanities Mentoring Network; co-PIs Jennifer Austin, Lacey Hunter, Maria Kennedy, and Stephanie Rodríguez) ($6,000)
2022-2025 — Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities (Lives in Translation: Lead Through Language; co-PIs Jennifer Austin and Jason Cortés) ($150,000)
2024 — Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America | Faculty Research (Decolonizing Translation in US/Mexico Diaspora; co-PI Janice Gallagher), Rutgers University, Newark ($25,000)
2024 — Rutgers Global Grant (Decolonizing Translation in US/Mexico Diaspora; co-PI Janice Gallagher), Rutgers University, Newark ($5,000)
2023 — Dean’s Travel Fund, Rutgers University, Newark ($500)
2023 — Open and Affordable Textbooks Program Award, Rutgers University, Newark ($1,000)
2022 — Open and Affordable Textbooks Program Award, Rutgers University, Newark ($1,000)