Awards and Grants

UMSL Gender Studies Small Grant 2025, "Microaffirmations in Clinical Medicine." ($500)

Co-PI with Rob Paul of a research project funded by the NIH called Multimodal Integrated Analysis and Assessment Development for NeuroHIV Outcomes (MIAAD NHIV) with the Missouri Institute of Mental Health ($705,786.00)

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching to a Tenured or Tenure Track Faculty Member 2025 ($1000)

College of Arts and Sciences civic engagement grant for Engaged Philosophy. ($750)

UMSL 2024 Gerald and Deanne Gitner Excellence in Teaching Award. ($1000)

UMSL 2024 Research Award. ($6000)

College of Arts and Sciences civic engagement grant for Engaged Philosophy. ($1000)

MAP for the Gap Minorities and Philosophy small grant for Philosophy and Activism Conference. ($500)

Early Career Research Network, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2020-2021.

Presidential Engagement Fellow, University of Missouri System, 2020-2021.

University of Missouri-St. Louis College of Arts and Sciences NTT Faculty Member of the Year, 2019.

Finalist for the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award, 2019.

Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award 2018.

University of Missouri-St. Louis Legendary Triton Award 2015-2016. (For outstanding faculty or staff member.)

University of Missouri Faculty Scholars 2013-2014.

Selected as mentee for The Mentoring Project (for pre-tenure women in philosophy), University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2013.

Missouri Learning Commons (National Center for Academic Transformation) Course Redesign for Business Ethics, May 2013. ($5,000)

New Faculty Innovation Grant, University of Missouri-St. Louis, October 2012. (iPad)

Teaching Citation, Washington University in St. Louis Teaching Center. (Awarded after completing an optional program for doctoral students.) September 2010.                            

First Place Ethics Contest Winner, “The Most Urgent and Neglected Ethical Issue of Our Time Is Environmentalism.” The Washington University in St. Louis Center for the Study of Ethics & Human Values, 2009. ($500)