Awards

I am blessed to have been recognized for my work and to have received support for my teaching, service, and research over the years. Below is a list of awards/recognition that I received.

1. PNC Endowed Chair in Banking & Finance

2. Burks Oakley II Distinguished Online Teaching Award (2024). News article: https://www.uis.edu/news/uis-recognizes-outstanding-teaching-service-and-scholarship-faculty-honors-reception

3. CBM Teacher of the Year Award (2024)

4. Provost's Good Ideas Fund (with Dr. Minh Tam Schloks and Rob Weis) ($3,750 to run a finance job shadowing project). News article: https://www.uis.edu/news/students-benefit-new-uis-finance-job-shadowing-program

5. UIS Faculty Engagement Award (2023)

6. UIS Strategic Investment Funds (with Dr. Minh Tam Schlosky) ($5,000 per year for two years to run a high school stock trading competition). News article: https://www.uis.edu/news/uis-awards-almost-4000-local-high-school-students-part-virtual-stock-trading-competition

7. CFA Professor Scholarship (for Level III Exam), CFA Institute, 2021

8. Center for Teaching Grants ($2,000), Sewanee: The University of the South, 2019-2020

9. Winner of the Financial Review Readers’ Choice Best Paper Award, 2019 

10. CFA Professor Scholarship (for Level II Exam), CFA Institute, 2019

11. Center for Teaching Grants ($1,400), Sewanee: The University of the South, 2019

12. Economics Department Kennedy Funds ($7,000), Sewanee: The University of the South, 2018-2019

13. Faculty Research Grant Award ($5,000), Sewanee: The University of the South, 2018-2019

14. CFA Professor Scholarship (for Level I Exam), CFA Institute, 2018

15. Faculty Research Grant Award ($2,500), Sewanee: The University of the South, 2017-2018

16. Economics Department Kennedy Funds ($806), Sewanee: The University of the South, 2018 

17. Faculty Research Grant Award ($1,254), Sewanee: The University of the South, 2016-2017

18. Economics Department Kennedy Funds ($2,960), Sewanee: The University of the South, 2016 

19. Center for Teaching Grants ($1,500), Sewanee: The University of the South, 2016

20. Kaiser Best Doctoral Student Award ($1,000), Economics Department, West Virginia University, 2013

21. Vickers Doctoral Student Research Paper Award ($500), Economics Department, West Virginia University, 2013

22. Graduate Tuition Scholarship, Economics Department, West Virginia University, 2009-2014

23. Graduate Student Award, Southern Economic Association, 2013

24. Thomas N. Mathers Award, Economics Department, Beloit College, 2009