Grants, Awards, and Distinctions
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Curriculum Development Initiative Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Jun-Sep 2020. Collaborate with production faculty member on development of graduate course, Introduction to Film Study and Production.
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Travel Grant. Office of International Programs, University of North Carolina Wilmington, June 2019.
Travel to Hamburg, Germany.
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Named by one or more graduating seniors at UNC Wilmington as a faculty member who made a “significant impact” on them in college, twenty-three consecutive years (1996-2019).
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Travel Award. College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina Wilmington, December 2018. Travel to Hamburg, Germany.
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Writing Intensive Faculty Fellowship, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2018.
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Travel Grant. Office of International Programs, University of North Carolina Wilmington, March 2018. Travel to Toronto, Canada.
- Travel Grant. Office of International Programs, University of North Carolina Wilmington, June 2017.
- Travel to Helsinki, Finland.Professional Development Grant, College of Arts and Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington, May-June 2016.
- Travel to Cornell University, NY for Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image Conference.
- Travel Grant. Office of International Programs, University of North Carolina Wilmington, June 2015. Travel to London, England.Research Grant. University of North Carolina Wilmington, summer 2014
- Research Reassignment. University of North Carolina Wilmington, spring 2014.
- Travel Grant. Office of International Programs, University of North Carolina Wilmington, June 2013. Travel to Berlin, Germany.
- Writer-in-Residence. Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, Southern Pines, NC, 2013.
- Named by one or more graduating seniors at UNC Wilmington as a faculty member whose impact on them at college was most significant; seventeen consecutive years (1996-2013).
- László Országh Chair in American Studies, Fulbright Scholars Distinguished Chair Award, U.S. Department of State, February-June 2012. Lecture, conduct research, and consult on curriculum and program development in the American Studies and Cinema Studies departments at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary.
- Travel Grant. Office of International Programs, University of North Carolina Wilmington, June 2009. Travel to Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Fulbright Scholars Award, U.S. Department of State, 2005-2006. Taught film studies courses and helped develop film studies programs and curricula at Vietnam’s national film school, the Hanoi University of Theater and Cinema.
- Research Reassignment, UNC-Wilmington, 2005-6
- Research Grant, UNC-Wilmington, 2004.
- UNCW Travel Grant, Office of International Programs, for travel to England, 2004
- Speaker and Specialist Grant, U.S. Department of State, Office of International Information Programs. Assisted program and curriculum development for a new film studies program at Pontifica Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. May 10-18, 2002.
- Charles Cahill Award, travel grant to conduct archival research in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Summer 2002.
- Research Grant, UNC-Wilmington, 2000.
- Curriculum Development Grant, UNC-Wilmington. Designed Film Studies Program curriculum. Summer, 1999.
- Research Grant, UNC-Wilmington, 1997.
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, U.C. Berkeley, 1994
- Highest Distinction in General Scholarship (Summa Cum Laude), UC Berkeley, 1986
- Phi Beta Kappa, UC Berkeley, 1986
- Hill Honorary Scholarship, UC Berkeley, 1986