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
2019-2021

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

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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