HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS

2006: Newcomb Fellows Grant to purchase African Films.

2005-2006: Duren Professorship, Tulane College.

2005-2006: Newcomb Seminar Course Planning Grant.

2005: Harry Ransom Research Center, Travel Grant.

2004 - : Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge University.

2004: Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, June-August.

2004: Center for Scholars George Lurcy Fund for Research, Tulane.

2003: Participant in NEH Summer Institute-- "Re-Imagining Indigenous Cultures: The Pacific Islands," Honolulu, Hawaii, June-August.

2003: Director of Faculty Development Seminar at the National Humanities Center; Topic: Postcolonial Theory and the Globalization of Culture; Funded by the DuPont Foundation.

2003: Rockefeller Foundation Residency at the Bellagio Conference Center (Italy)

2003: Center for Scholars George Lurcy Fund for Research, Tulane.

2001-2002: National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park) -- Residential Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

2001 : Center for Scholars George Lurcy Fund for Research, Tulane.

2001 : CTE Grant for Teaching Needs, Center for Excellence in Teaching, Tulane.

2000 : Faculty Award to attend the International School of Theory in the Humanities, Avignon, (France), July 2-28th, 2000 -- Tulane University.

1999 : Center for Scholars Grant to organize the MELUS 2000 Conference.

1999 : Newcomb Fellows Award for work on Under Erasure.

1998 : Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Tulane University.

1997 : Newcomb College Collaborative Grant to organize a conference -- “Ethnologie Feminine: Autobiography, Identity and Global Culture.”

1997 : Tulane Lilly Fellows Grant.

1996 : Tulane University -- Committee on Research Summer Grant.

1996 : Course Development Grant -- “Improving Race Relations and Cultural Diversity on College Campuses” Ford Foundation. Grant administered by the Program of African and Diaspora Studies, Tulane University.

1995-1996 : Faculty Research Award -- University at Albany.

1994-1995 : AUUP Faculty Award -- University at Albany.

1992 -1993 : `Stanley Fish Instructorship,’ Duke University.

1989 -1990 : Graduate School Fellowship, Duke University.

1988 -1989 : Graduate School Fellowship, Northwestern University.

May 1988 : ‘Outstanding Senior Award,’ Alumni Association, Northwestern University.

May 1988 : Elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

May 1987 : ‘The Best English Junior of the Year Award,’ Northwestern University.