Ohio Campus Compact Cleveland Foundation Faculty Fellows Program grant (2001-2002)
Research grant, Ohio Arts Council (2001)
Ohio Campus Compact Community Engagement Grant (matched by Baldwin-Wallace College) (2001)
Ohio Campus Compact Community Collaboration Seed Grant (matched by Baldwin-Wallace College) (2000-2001)
Baldwin-Wallace College Summer Grant (2000)
Ohio Campus Compact Scholarship of Engagement Mini-Grant (matched by Baldwin-Wallace College) (2000)
Nominated for the Strosacker Award for teaching (2000, 2001); nominated for the Faculty Excellence Award by the Baldwin-Wallace College Student Senate (2000)
Winner of the second annual R. Serge Denisoff Award for the Best Article Published in Popular Music and Society, 1998, for my article “Cajun Music, Cultural Revival: Theorizing Political Action in Popular Music.” (Award notification in 2000)
Valerie Scudder [teaching] Award, Chapman University (1999)
With Ruth Wardwell, First Place in Press Kit Category of 1999 Orange County Press Club Awards Program, for work on election polling.
Academic Research Grant, Chapman University (1998)
Nominated for Wang-Fradkin Professorship (recognizes exceptional scholarly promise or accomplishment) (1998, 1997)
Faculty Award for Excellence, Chapman University (1997)
Academic Research Grant, Chapman University (1997)
Academic Research Grant, Chapman University (1996).
Summer Research Grant, Chapman University (1995).
University of Minnesota Graduate School Tuition Fellowships (1989-1993).
Research Grant, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota (1991).
MacArthur Predissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota (1989).
Humphrey Scholarship, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota (1984-1985).
Full four-year tuition scholarship, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota (1972-1976).
Graduated with honors, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, 1976
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