Selected Honors

Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, for 2011-2012 academic year, awarded March 2011.

Distinguished Teaching Fellowship, University of Virginia Department of Psychology, for teaching an undergraduate seminar in the fall of 2011, awarded March 2011, declined in order to accept Dissertation Year Fellowship.

First Place in Social & Behavioral Sciences, University of Virginia Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences, for oral presentation at Robert J. Huskey Graduate Research Exhibition, March 2011.

Tomorrow’s Professor Today Participant. Participant in selective professional development program for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows designed to facilitate the transition from student to academic professional by improving preparedness in teaching, professional development, and adjustment to a university career. Teaching Resource Center, University of Virginia, 2009-2012, accepted June 2008.

Presidential Fellowship, University of Virginia Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences, 2007-2011.