Affiliations, Awards, Media
Affiliations & Service Highlights
Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition
Advancing the Agenda Webinar Series, Co-Chair (2022-2024)
Feminist Scholarship Webinar Series (2021-2022)
Storytelling as Method & Methodology Pod (2021-2022)
Mentor to emerging scholars (2017-Present)
Executive Board Nominating Committee (2017)
Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research
Steering Committee Member (2021-2023)
Programming Subcommittee (2021-2022)
Rhetoric Society of America
Publications Committee (2023-2025)
Institute participant (2013, 2015, 2019, 2021)
Active member
University of Wyoming
Committee to Develop Black 14 Smithsonian Exhibit for the
National Museum of African American History and Culture
(2020-Present)Inside English 1010 Faculty Director (2018-2022)
University Studies Committee (2021-2024, Chair 2022-2023)
Small Speculations Podcast (Teaching Tool)
Awards & Grants
State and National Levels
Mellon Foundation Grant (2024-2027)
Principle Investigator and Grant Author
"Re-Storying the West for a Transformative Future: We Are Wyoming"
$850,000 in support of a three-year community story-gathering project
Wyoming Historical Society's Lola Homsher Research Grant (2023)
University of Wyoming
College of Arts & Sciences Extraordinary Merit in Research Award (2024)
Honors College Mentoring Award (2023)
Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research: Research Fund Award (2023)
College of Arts & Sciences Travel Award for Research (2023)
College of Arts & Sciences Extraordinary Merit in Teaching Award (2022)
Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research: Research Fellowship (2021)
Sorority Life Faculty Advisor of the Year (Phi Sigma Rho) (2020)
College of Arts & Sciences Travel Award Grant (2019)
Texas A&M at Qatar
Teaching Excellence Grant (2015)
Special Projects Grant for Establishing "Women's Faculty Forum" (2015)
Dean's Leadership Award (2014)
"Best Faculty Member" in Liberal Arts (2014)
Student Engineering Council: Best Professor in Liberal Arts (2013)
Texas A&M University
Student Led Awards of Teaching Excellence (2010)
Honors Curriculum Development Grants (1996, 2001, 2007)
Distance Education Development Grant (2004)
Quality Enhancement Plan Assessment Grant (2003)
Kenneth Burke Society: Top Five Papers (NCA Conference, 2013)
