Select Fellowships, Grants Scholarships, Awards, and Honors
Public Voices Fellowship, The OpEd Project, 2024-2025
Duane H. King Short-Term Fellowship, Helmerich Center for American Research, Gilcrease Museum, University of Tulsa, 2023
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Latino Studies, School for Advanced Research, 2022-2023
Cairns K. Smith Faculty Scholar, Oregon State University, 2022-2026
Oral History Association Book Award for Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Oral Histories of the Liberation Struggles in Texas, with editors and contributors, 2022
New Professional Award, National Council on Public History, 2022
National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving, Institutions, West Texas A&M University, the Center for the Study of the American West (CSAW), “Forgotten Frontera: The Mexican American Southern Plains, Role: Visiting Faculty Scholar, 2022
Cliff and Jo Anne Trow Teaching Excellence Award, School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University, 2022
The Steve and Nancy Buck Faculty Development Award, College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University, 2021
Oregon Heritage Grant, Oregon Heritage Commission, Letitia Carson Legacy Project Digital Repository, Oregon Black Pioneers as Project Lead, Role: Digital Humanities Advisor, 2021
Early Career Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University, 2021
Catarino and Evangelina Hernández Research Fellowship in Latino History, Texas State Historical Association, 2021
Portal for Texas History Research Fellowship, Digital Library, University of North Texas Libraries, University of North Texas, 2021
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas Foco Dissertation Award, 2020
Fellowship in Humanities-Based Data Studies and Digital/Social Transformation, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, offered, 2020
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Humanities Center, Texas Tech University, offered, 2020
Frederick C. Luebke Award for outstanding regional scholarship, given to the best article published in the Great Plains Quarterly, 2019
Louise Pubols Public History Prize, Western History Association, 2019
Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Humanities Center, Texas Tech University, offered, 2019
Richard E. Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar, Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico, 2018
Masterson Fellowship, Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma, 2018
Jo Stewart Randel Grant, Center for the Study of the American West, West Texas A&M University, 2017, 2018
Dissertation Fellowship, Southern Methodist University, 2018
Doctoral Fellowship in Southwestern History, Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, offered, 2018
A.W. Mellon Fellowship in Technology-Enhanced Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, offered, 2018
Mary M. Hughes Research Fellowship in Texas History, Texas State Historical Association, 2017
Interdisciplinary Fellowship in the Digital Humanities, Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute, Southern Methodist University, 2016-2017
The Ernest Wallace Grant for Graduate Research on West Texas History, West Texas Historical Association, 2015
Edward Lee Oral History Scholarship, Southern Foodways Alliance, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, 2014
Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Program Fellowship, Smithsonian Latino Center, Smithsonian Institute, offered, 2014
Ph.D. Fellowship, William P. Clements Department of History, Southern Methodist University, 2013-2017
Policy Fellowship, Moreno-Rangel Legislative Leadership Program, Mexican American Legislative Leadership Foundation, 2013
Top Ten Seniors Award, 2012-2013 Academic Year, University of Texas at El Paso Alumni Association, 2013
Outstanding Graduating Senior in History, Winter Commencement, Department of History, University of Texas at El Paso, 2012