Recognitions + Awards

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• Columbus College of Art and Design Teaching Excellence Award Nominee – Honorable Mention. 2009; 2010; 2013; 2015, 2016, 2017.

• American Orchid Society Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Service and Commitment to the Central Ohio Orchid Society, January 2017.

• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) New Faculty Fellows Program Nominee, November 2009.

• OSU Department of English John Muste Best Dissertation Award Nominee, May 2009.

• Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Fellowship Nominee, April 2009.

• ADA Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion, and Disability Poster Session. Best Qualitative Research Award for “Rhetorics of Resistance: An E(merging) Theory for Disability Studies, feminisms, and Disorder.” Columbus, Ohio. 13 April 2005.

• Faculty and Administrator Modules in Higher Education (FAME) Funding, ($500) for paper presentation. "A Monstrous Emerge-Agency: Cripping the Whole Left." CCCC, New York, NY. 21 March 2003.

• OSU Graduate Teaching Associate Award Nominee, Autumn 1998.

• Golden Key International Honor Society, University of Central Florida 1994-1996.

• Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society, Vice President, UCF 1994-1996.

 

Professional Organization Memberships

 

• Modern Language Association

• Rhetoric Society of America

• Society of Disability Studies

• Accessible Technology Coalition

• Central Ohio Orchid Society (Development and maintenance of social media sites for non-profit organization, COOS)