Awards, Honors & Fellowships

2019: Spirit of Community Engagement Award, Faculty Category (Finalist),Wayne State University.

2018: Linda L. Putnam Early Career Scholar Award, Organizational Communication Division, International Communication Association.

2018: Brock Research Award, Department of Communication, Wayne State University.

2018-2019: Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship, Wayne State University. ($6,000 awarded)

2018: Spring/Summer PhD Student Research Assistant Support. Department of Communication, Wayne State University. Funded PhD student D. Feltner, $2,500. (Study: “Organizing/Communicating for Urban Sustainability: The Detroit Entrepreneurial Ecosystem”)

2018-2019: Graduate Research Assistant Award. Graduate School, Wayne State University. Funded PhD student D. Feltner for 12 months, including $22,241 stipend. (Study: “Sustainable lifestyles/consumption for a better world”)

2016-2017: Faculty Fellow. “Next Generation” Humanities Faculty Mentoring Fellowship Team, Wayne State University. ($2,500 awarded)

2016: Resident Scholar. Humanities Center, Wayne State University (Winter and Spring/Summer 2016 semesters).

2015: Spring/Summer Doctoral Student Research Assistant Support. Department of Communication, Wayne State University. Funded PhD student S.L. Mitchell, $2,500. (Study: “Communicative complexities of enacting environmental resource management policy in the U.S. Arctic”)

2014: Visiting Fellowship, Institute of the North, Anchorage AK.

2014: Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship, Wayne State University. ($4,500 awarded).

2013: Harriet Dowdell Bantz, Sandra G. Petronio, and Charles R. Bantz Endowed Faculty Development Award, Wayne State University.