Awards

Notable Career Awards

Recognition: The 2024 Herron School of Art & Design’s Distinguished Alumni Award. Read the announcement here.

Recognition: Indiana Humanities' Advancing Racial Equity Speakers Bureau speaker

Fellowship:  Theologian-in-Residence with the First United Methodist Church in Boulder for a social action writing textbook to be published in 2024

Fellowship: The Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2022  Pocantico Fellow. My project, "Stigmatized Land: Central State Hospital's Unmarked Cemetery Project," looks at stigmatized land and sites of trauma research and applies it to Indianapolis case studies. Read the announcement here.

Recognition:  The Indianapolis Business Journal's 40 Under 40 Award. Read about the recipients here.

Grant: The National Endowment for the Humanities’ American Rescue Plan Grant Recipient with the Indiana Medical History Museum’s for the Patient Memory Archive & Research Project. Read more about the project here.

Recognition: The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s American Express Aspire Award: Recognizing Emerging Leaders in Preservation. Read more about the award here or watch the full award ceremony here.

Fellowship: Indiana Humanities’ Wilma Gibbs Moore Research Fellowship, “A Judgment Call: Indianapolis, Redlining, and Unjust Legacies.” Read more about the fellowship here and stay tuned for a new blog post with my final research findings.

Recognition: Dismantle Preservation’s 40 Under 40 List. Read the full list here.