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