ACADEMIC
2022 CCCC Outstanding Dissertation in Technical Communication, Conference on College Composition and Communication (a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE))
2022 CAS Summer Professional Development Grant. College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina Wilmington
2022 Information Literacy Faculty Fellow. University of North Carolina Wilmington
2021 ATTW Amplification Award. Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
2021 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Michigan Technological University
2021 Doctoral Finishing Fellowship, Michigan Technological University
2021 Exceptional Graduate Student Scholar Award, Graduate Students Government, Michigan Tech
2020-2021 Graduate Research Scholarship, John Wesley-James Jones Memorial Foundation
2020 Barbara Heifferon Graduate Students Fellowship, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine symposium
2020 CPTSC Diversity Scholarship Award (First Place), Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication/Bedford St. Martins
2020 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, Michigan Technological University
2019 ATTW Graduate Research Award, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
2019 ATTW Research Methods Workshop Scholarship, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
2019 Best Graduate Student Conference Paper Award, Department of Humanities, Michigan Tech
2019-2020 Graduate Research Scholarship, John Wesley-James Jones Memorial Foundation
2019-2020 Bizjak-Baraga Graduate Scholarship, St. Albert the Great University Parish
2019 African Linguistics School Scholarship, African Linguistics School at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
2018-2019 Doctoral Fellowship, Rhetoric, Theory and Culture Graduate Program, Michigan Tech
2013-2015 Norwegian Educational Scholarship (Quota Program), The Kingdom of Norway
2004-2007 Government Scholarship Award, (Ghana Education Trust Fund), Republic of Ghana
TRAVEL
2020 Humanities Travel Grant, Michigan Technological University
2019 Modern Language Association convention grant
2019 Afrisem Annual Graduate Conference grant, Northwestern University
2018 & 2016 Graduate Student Government grant, Michigan Technological University
2018 & 2017 Humanities Travel Grant, Michigan Technological University
2016 Travel grant, ReMix. Africa in Translation symposium at Goethe Institut, Lomé, Togo; Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies
LITERARY
2019 Pushcart Prize nomination, by Dunes Review (Northern Michigan’s premier literary journal)
2016 Kofi Awoonor Literary Prize (2nd Runner Up), Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Award, University of Ghana
2015 Harmattan Poetry Contest (1st Runner up), Akwantuo Writing, Ghana
2012 Recipient, University of Ghana Community Excellence Award (Creative Arts Category), University of Ghana
Students Representative Council