Research and Writing
2023
Kairos Award for Best Webtext Honorable Mention for “Hollow me, hollow me, until only you remain.”
2023
Rutgers University School of Graduate Studies (SGS) Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award. Invited to be the student speaker at the 2023 SGS Convocation. Unable to participate due to COVID-19.
2022
#BorgDiem Disabled Word Invention Contest, First Place Prize ($50) for “Misability.”
2020
Kairos Award for Graduate Student/NTT Faculty in the Scholarship/Research Category.
2019
Featured in The Rumpus’ “This Week in Essays”: Easter in Sri Lanka: Today is loss that isn’t loss, The Paris Review.
2015
Pushcart Prize nomination: The meaning of a machete, Consequence Magazine.
2015
Special mention in Best American Essays 2015 in “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2014”: “The meaning of a machete,” Consequence Magazine.
Teaching
2023
LGBTQA+ Educator of the Year Nominee, Pace University – PLV.
2021
LGBTQA+ Educator of the Year Award, Pace University – PLV.
2020
“Honoring Excellence” Faculty Award for Supporting Academic Achievement, Office of Residential Life and Housing, Pace University – PLV. Pace Chronicle article here.
2020
LGBTQA+ Educator of the Year Nominee, Pace University – PLV.
2019 Apr
“Faculty of the Month” Campus Winner, National Residence Hall Honorary, Northeast Affiliate of the National Association of College & University Residence Halls, Inc., Pace University – PLV.
2018
Roger Hernandez Memorial Part-Time Faculty Award, Communication, Information, and Media, Rutgers University.
2017
Presidential Excellence in Teaching Nominee, Baruch College.
2014
Teaching Assistant of the Year, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University.
Service
2023
Computers and Composition Michelle Kendrick Award for Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship for co-edited special issue “Carework and Writing During COVID” (Parts I and II) in the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics.
2022 Dec
YES I Make It Happen Recognition Nomination, Pace University – PLV.