Selected Awards
Fellowships & Grants
Friend of the Michael and Jacqueline Wald Professorship in Holocaust Studies Endowment
Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies
The University of Texas at Dallas
Visiting Assistant Professor
2019-2020
German Historical Institute Washington/GHI West Conference Funding
In Global Transit: Forced Migration of Jews and other Refugees (1940s-1960s)
UC Berkeley, California
2019
Charles M. Schwarz Endowment in Holocaust Studies
Made in memory by Ron Schwarz and Larry Schwarz
Dallas, TX
2018
Knapp Family Foundation Travel Grant
Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)
Washington, DC
Dec. 17-19, 2017
Istvan & Zsuzanna Ozsváth Research Fund
Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies
The University of Texas at Dallas
Made possible by Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger in memory of Israel & Janet Nasher, Patsy & Raymond Nasher
São Paulo, Lisbon, Jerusalem, Paris, Berlin
July 5 – August 23, 2017
Certificate from Leo Baeck Summer University
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
June 2016 - August 2016
Associate Fellowship
Stephen S. Weinstein Holocaust Symposium
Wroxton College, UK
June 24-28, 2016
Auschwitz Memorial and State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland
June 28-30, 2016
Holocaust Educational Foundation (HEF) Travel Grant
Northwestern University
Claremont, CA
November 3-6, 2016
Leo Back Summer University Tuition Scholarship
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Berlin, Germany
June 30-August 12, 2016
Selwin Belofsky Fellowship in Holocaust Studies
Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies
The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX
2013-2018
High Distinction Pass
Masters of Arts Portfolio Theses Oral Defense
The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX
August 2013
Dean's List
School of Arts & Humanities
The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX
2009, 2011
Good Citizenship Gold Medal
National Society of Sons of the American Revolution
Irving, TX
2007
President's Volunteer Service Award, Gold Medal
Bestowed by President George W. Bush
Irving, TX
2007
Class Valedictorian, summa cum laude
Jack E. Singley Academy High School
Irving, TX
May 2007