Senior Research Fellowship, Western Sydney University, Australia, 2016-
International Scholar, Kyung Hee University, South Korea, 2016-2017
BK 21 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, 2010.
Chancellor's Leadership Award, Syracuse University, 2009-2011.
Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award, Pacific University, May 2008.
Undergraduate Teaching Award, Department of English, Syracuse University, 1999-2000.
NEH Summer Fellow (Critical Theory Institute, Univ. of California, 1996)
Dean’s Summer Research Grant, College of Arts & Sciences, Syracuse University, 1997-99
Nominated to Harvard Society of Fellows, 1995 and 1999
Invited Fellow, International School of Theory in the Humanities at Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1998
William P. Tolley Curriculum Development Grant, Syracuse University, 1997
Fellow, NEH Summer Seminar in Critical Theory, The Critical Theory Institute, University of
California, 1996
Dorothy and Donald Strauss Dissertation and Thesis Fellowship Award, 1995
University Regents Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, 1994
University Regents Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, 1991-1992
Fellow, Center for the Study of Hermeneutics, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley,1990.
Principal Investigator (2008-current), The Central New York Humanities Corridor (Syracuse University-Cornell University-University of Rochester): consecutive awards by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Original one-million-dollar award, 2006; $60,000 NCE and bridging awards, 2009; one-million-dollar award for phase 2, 2011; triple matching endowment award (Syracuse University, Cornell University, University of Rochester) totaling 6.5 million dollars 2014-2017; $300,000 immediate expendible award, July 2014. Total principal awards = =5.36 million dollars, including matching commitment of 2 million dollars by Syracuse University as of 2018.
Co-Investigator, Chancellor’s Leadership Award, Syracuse University. $150,000 dollar award for Transdiscplinary Media Program between 2010-2013.
Principal Investigator, "Public Humanities Collaboratory," Imagining America. $5,000 dollar award.