Awards and Honors

• Distinguished Visiting Professor, St. Louis University, Winter 2004
• 2001-2002 Spencer Foundation Fellowship
• 2001Research Award, Institute for Research on Women and Gender
• Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs 1880-1920. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997). Winner of the National Association of Women's Studies Manuscript Prize
• 1999 Computerworld Smithsonian Program for Technology Assisted Teacher Education (TATE) Project
• 1999 University of Michigan Career Development Award
• 1998 University of Michigan Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award
• 1998 Distinguished Faculty and Graduate Student Seminar Award
• 1997-98 Faculty Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities
• 1997 D’Arms Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring  
• 1997 Whitaker Award for The Improvement of Teaching
• 1997 OVPR-Rackham Spring/Summer Research Award
• 1997 NEH Award, "Making American Literatures" Project
• 1995 OVPR-Rackham Spring/Summer Research Award
• 1995 National Women's Studies Association Manuscript Prize
• 1994 Meade Award for Excellence in English Education
• 1993 Rackham Research Partnership (with Sarah Robbins)
• 1992 LSA Faculty Award
• 1991 Presidential Initiatives Fund Grant (with Deborah Keller-Cohen)
• 1990 Rackham Research Partnership (with Laura Roop)
• 1989 NEH Travel Grant
• 1983 Departmental Teaching Award
• 1983 NEH Award, "Writing in the Humanities" Project