Recent honors, grants, and awards:

• 2016 - Vondrak Outstanding Advisor Award, Hastings College
• 2015 - Invited Falculty Lecturer, Hastings College
• 2014 - Polished Apple Award for teaching excellence, Student Association, Hastings College
• 2014 - Catalyst Grant, Sherwood Foundation
• 2012 - Honorable Mention, Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship, jointly awarded by Sociologist for Women in Society, Society for the Study of Social Problems, and American Sociological Association. 
• 2012 - Graduate Student Award for Significant Achievement in Research,  Sociology Graduate Program, Kansas State University
•  2011 - Preliminary examinations passed with Honors
•  2011 - Midwest Sociological Society Endowment Research Grant
•  2011 - Kansas State University Dow Multicultural Resource Center Grant