Honors and Awards

Teaching and Research Excellence grant, Shippensburg University. For summer research in France ($3700).

Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society. For summer research in France, 2010 ($4000).

Honorable Mention (i.e., second place) for the William Koren, Jr. Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies, given “for the outstanding journal article published on any era of French history by a North American scholar in an American, European, or Canadian journal during 2007.” This was given for my article “Same-Sex Couples Creating Households in Old Regime France: The Uses of the Affrèrement,” Journal of Modern History 79(3):613-47 (September 2007).

The Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize, awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference to the best article in the field of French History in 2006, for my article “The Michelade in Nîmes, 1567,” French Historical Studies 29(1):3-35 (Winter 2006).

Camargo Foundation Fellowship (Cassis, France). Residential fellowship to complete the final revisions for That Men Would Praise the Lord, Fall semester, 2007.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, to participate in a Summer Seminar for Faculty on Calvinism, held at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, July, 2004.

Eric Cochrane Travel Fellowship for dissertation research (awarded by the Univ. of Chicago Dept. of History). June, 1993.

Unendowed university fellowship, University of Chicago. Full tuition and stipend, 1990-1994.