Portfolio:
Grants and Awards
Selected awards and honors
Dissertation - Defended with distinction
Arthur J. Schmitt Dissertation Fellowship, 2010-2011 - A Loyola University Chicago dissertation fellowship recognizing academic research that serves humanity. Considered full-time, no service required.
Religious Research Association Constant H. Jacquet Research Award, 2010-2011 - A research funding award given by the Religious Research Association.
Alpha Sigma Nu, 2009-present - The Jesuit Honor Society; Alpha Sigma Nu members are chosen based on their contributions of scholarship and service.
Graduate/Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program Grant, 2009 - A program created to support graduate/undergraduate collaboration in research. In this program, I mentored one of my former students who assisted in planning the participatory action research sessions for my dissertation research.
Advanced Doctoral Fellowship, 2009-2010 - A Loyola University Chicago Fellowship to support Ph.D. students "who have demonstrated excellence in all aspects of graduate study." Considered full-time, no service required.
Best of Symposium Award - Loyola University Chicago Interdisciplinary Research Symposium, March 21, 2009 - Recipients were chosen by fellow graduate students who decided on the best presentations of the symposium.
Ph.D. Comprehensive Exams, passed with distinction, Nov 2009
President’s Medallion winner 2008-2009 - A Loyola University Chicago award recognizing scholarship, leadership and service. Each year, these awards are given to one person in each of Loyola's schools and I received this award for the Graduate School. View award announcement from Loyola Magazine
Graduate School Advisory Council Essay Award Winner, 2008 - Award for an essay written on Jesuit pedagogy and service learning.
Graduate School Conference Travel Awards, 2007, 2008, 2009 - Travel awards received for papers given at academic conferences in Botswana, Norway, and Nigeria.
Graduate School Merit Award, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09 - Loyola University Chicago Merit Awards covering three years of coursework tuition and a stipend for graduate assistantship work.
Graduated Magna Cum Laude - Baylor University, 2002
Participant in “The Future of Public Theology,” 2001 - Also called the "Baylor/Harvard Dialogue," this program took place at Harvard May 20-21, 2001. The focus of the two day conversation was on religious pluralism, public theology and the historical and present missions of the two schools. Read a news article about the project
Grant writing experience
Primary grant writer for the Exploring Global Feminist Theologies in Postcolonial Space project. For this project, I wrote grants that were sent to six different foundations or grant-giving organizations. From these applications, funding for the project was received from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning, the American Academy of Religion and the Loyola University Chicago Global Initiatives Incentive Fund. Additional funding was secured through various departments and organizations at Loyola University Chicago and University of San Diego. Through a combination of grants and gifts, the $45,000 budget for the program was fully funded.
