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Awards
Awards
2023 IATBLT Distinguished Achievement Award
2022 AAAL Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award
2019 Georgetown President's Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers
2019 Georgetown Provost’s Career Research Achievement Award
2012 Modern Language Association's Mildenburger Book Prize (with Susan M. Gass)
Honors & Recognitions
Honors & Recognitions
2024
2024
Publications cited ~35,000+ times (Google Scholar), h-index: 67, i10: 115. Top ten highly cited scholar in applied linguistics and 3rd highest cited female professor at Georgetown University.
Peer-reviewed article published in PLoS ONE on vaccine discourse, “Seatbelts and raincoats, or banks and castles: Investigating the impact of vaccine metaphors” was illustrated in five video cartoons by Science Animated. These have amassed more than 880,700 views on X (formerly Twitter).
1. How do vaccines work? A Castle metaphor (180.6k views)
2. Is ‘natural immunity’ better than vaccine-induced immunity? A Fire drill metaphor (177.9k views)
3. Are vaccines that are developed quickly safe? A Cake metaphor (179.6k views)
4. Why take a vaccine if I’m at low risk from the illness? A Speed Limit metaphor (180k views)
5. Why take a vaccine if it isn’t 100% effective? A Raincoat metaphor (162.6k views)
2019
2019
Finalist, Gerald M. Mara Faculty Mentorship Award, Georgetown University (also a finalist in 2018, 2017, 2015 and 2013).
Georgetown Vicennial Medal: For 20 years of service to the university.
2018
2018
Studies in Second Language Acquisition anniversary collection: Mackey, Gass & McDonough (2000) named among the most influential articles in the journal’s history.
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics: Editor-in-Chief: Ranked #1 out of 181 linguistics journals on IF (#57 when I took over; now #10 of 370 in Clarivariate’s JCI).
2014
2014
Article published in The Guardian, “What happens in the brain when you learn a language?” shared over 70,000 times on Facebook.
2013–2014
2013–2014
Choice Magazine Top Academic Title for 2013–14. (For The handbook of second language acquisition (2011) with Gass, S.M.)
2013
2013
Finalist, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Mentorship, Georgetown University.
Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize, Modern Language Association. (For The handbook of second language acquisition (2011) with Gawith Gass, S. M.)
2012
2012
Visiting Fellowship. Campion Hall, Oxford University (Summer/Residence).
2000
2000
Junior Faculty Research Leave and Visiting Fellow. Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, England.
1999
1999
Nexus Teaching-Research Award, Georgetown University.
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