HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, & DISTINCTIONS

2020 Faculty Recognition Award
St. John’s University, Queens, NY

2019-20 Howard J. Samuels Fellow, Baruch College/CUNY

2019 Faculty Recognition Award
St. John’s University, Queens, NY

2019 (July) Editor-in-Chief, Language Discourse & Society,
International peer-reviewed journal for International Sociological
Association Research Committee 25—Language & Society

2019 Alpha Kappa Delta Theta of New York, Faculty Appreciation Award

2019 Advisory Board Member, Language Discourse & Society,
International peer-reviewed journal for International Sociological
Association Research Committee 25—Language & Society

2018 Plenary Speaker, International Sociological Association
XIX World Congress, Quadrennial Meeting, Toronto, Canada

2018 St. John’s University, Division of Student Affairs
Division Appreciation Award/Service to Students

2016 – 2017 Participant – Walter Stafford Project: Inequality in New York City
New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public
Service (http://wagner.nyu.edu/stafford-symposium/symposium)

2016 Mentor of the Year
McNair Scholars Program – St. John’s University

2015 “Author-Meets-Critic” Session – Scheduled at the Annual Meeting of the
Eastern Sociological Society: New York, NY to discuss Savage
Portrayals: Race, Media, and the Central Park Jogger Story

2015 Faculty Recognition Award
St. John’s University, Queens, NY

2013 – 2014 Faculty Fellow
Institute for Writing Studies/Writing Across the Curriculum
St. John’s University, Queens, NY

2013 Faculty Recognition Award
St. John’s University, Queens, NY

Summer 2011 Institute for Writing Studies/Summer Writing Institute in Paris
St. John’s University, Queens, NY

2011 Faculty Recognition Award
St. John’s University, Queens, NY

2010 Faculty Recognition Award
St. John’s University, Queens, NY

2009 – 2010 Faculty Fellow
Institute for Writing Studies/Writing Across the Curriculum
St. John’s University, Queens, NY

2005 – 2006 Teaching Associate
Fordham University, Bronx, NY

2000 – 2005 Presidential Scholarship
Fordham University, Bronx, NY

1993 – 1994 Charles H. Revson Fellow
Columbia University
New York, NY

1992 Community Action Network: Media Award (National)
1992 Community Action Network: Certificate of Merit

1989 Pulitzer Prize Nomination for Spot News coverage
(Member of a team that worked on story nominated by the Daily News.)

1989 Society of the Silurians: Honorable Mention in Spot News
1989 AP Awards: 3rd Place in Spot News

1989 New York Press Club: Honorable Mention in Byline Print Award

1981 – 1983 National Science Foundation Fellow
Stanford University
Stanford, CA