Affiliations, Awards, Media

Affiliations & Service Highlights 

Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition 

• Advancing the Agenda Webinar Series, Co-Chair (2022-2024)

• Feminist Scholarship Webinar Series (2021-2022)

• Storytelling as Method & Methodology Pod (2021-2022)

• Mentor to emerging scholars (2017-Present)

• Executive Board Nominating Committee (2017)

Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research

• Steering Committee Member (2021-2023)

• Programming Subcommittee (2021-2022)

Rhetoric Society of America

• Publications Committee (2023-2025)

• Institute participant (2013, 2015, 2019, 2021)

• Active member

University of Wyoming

• Committee to Develop Black 14 Smithsonian Exhibit for the
  National Museum of  African American History and Culture
  (2020-Present)

• Inside English 1010 Faculty Director (2018-2022)

• University Studies Committee (2021-2024, Chair 2022-2023)

Small Speculations Podcast (Teaching Tool)

• On Apple

• On Spotify

Awards & Grants

State and National Levels

• Mellon Foundation Grant (2024-2027)

  • Principle Investigator and Grant Author

  • "Re-Storying the West for a Transformative Future: We Are Wyoming"

  • $850,000 in support of a three-year community story-gathering project

• Wyoming Historical Society's Lola Homsher Research Grant (2023)

University of Wyoming 

• College of Graduate Studies Mid-Career Mentor Award (2025)

• College of Arts & Sciences Extraordinary Merit in Research Award (2024)

• Honors College Mentoring Award (2023)

• Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research: Research Fund Award (2023)

• College of Arts & Sciences Travel Award for Research (2023)

• College of Arts & Sciences Extraordinary Merit in Teaching Award (2022)

• Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research: Research Fellowship (2021)

• Sorority Life Faculty Advisor of the Year (Phi Sigma Rho) (2020)

• College of Arts & Sciences Travel Award Grant (2019)

Texas A&M at Qatar 

• Teaching Excellence Grant (2015)

• Special Projects Grant for Establishing "Women's Faculty Forum" (2015)

• Dean's Leadership Award (2014)

• "Best Faculty Member" in Liberal Arts (2014)

• Student Engineering Council: Best Professor in Liberal Arts (2013) 

Texas A&M University 

• Student Led Awards of Teaching Excellence (2010)

• Honors Curriculum Development Grants (1996, 2001, 2007)

• Distance Education Development Grant (2004)

• Quality Enhancement Plan Assessment Grant (2003)

Kenneth Burke Society: Top Five Papers (NCA Conference, 2013)