Awards (selected since 1990)
2023 LEF Foundation Moving Image Fund Pre-Production Grant
2023 American Antiquarian Society Elected Member
2020 Furthermore Publication Award, J.M, Kaplan Fund
2020 Society of Environmental Journalists Story Grant Award
2019 Michigan Humanities Council Fellowship
2017 American Antiquarian Society Artist & Writers Baron Fellowship
2015 Ct Arts /NEA Initiative Grant funded by the National Endowment for the Arts
2014 Pushcart Prize in Literature Nomination for Literary Nonfiction fall 2014
2014 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
2007 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Literary Nonfiction
2006 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Nominee
2002 Publication Award the Victorian Society of America, A Family Place
2002 Book Award, Documentation of American Life A Family Place
2000 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in American Studies
1999 American Association of University Women American Fellowship
1999 Furthermore, the Publication Program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund
1998 New York State Library Research Fellowship
1997 Picker Research Fellowship Colgate University
1996 Rona Jaffe Writer's Award Finalist
1996 Garrison Fellowship for distinguished research: Colgate University
1994 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature
1993 Money for Women/ Deming Memorial Fund award for nonfiction
1992 Radcliffe Bunting Fellow in Creative Writing Radcliffe, Cambridge
1991 James Thurber Writer-in-Residence The Ohio State University, Columbus
1990 PEN/Martha Albrand Special Citation for Nonfiction, The Road Through Miyama
College of the Holy Cross Internal Grants & Awards
2021 Research and Publication Award, Beaverland
2020 Faculty Fellowship, one semester research leave
2019 Research and Publication Award, Ain’t Much Beauty In It: Documentary film
2018 Research and Publication Award, The Road Back to Miyama
2017 Research and Publication Award, On the Trapline
2017 Research and Publication Award, Water Rising: Video Installation
2016 Research and Publication Award, The Bible and the Beaver
2016 Center for Teaching Award, Ekphrasis at the Worcester Art Museum
2016 Dean’s Office Faculty Development Fellowship
2015 Center for Teaching Award, New Camaldi part II
2015 Research and Publication Award, Water Rising: A Performance
2014 Faculty Fellowship, one semester research leave
2014 Research and Publication Award, Water Rising: An Art Collaboration
2014 Center for Teaching Award, Contemplative Practice: New Camaldi
2009 Research and Publication Award, The Road Back to Miyama
2013 Bachelor Ford Summer Fellowship Water Rising: New Poems
2012 Research and Publication Award, Water Under the Bridge
2012 Research and Publication Award, Rhetorics of Silence II,
2010 Research and Publication Award, New Camaldoli,
2006 Bachelor Ford Summer Fellowship, Heaven & Earth
2005 Research and Publication Award, The Vicar’s Wife
2004 Research and Publication Award, After Bradley