Awards and Grants

E.B. and Jean Smith Prize in Political History, 2025.

• The prize recognizes the "best graduate student working in political history.”

Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award (link)

UMD Faculty-Student Research Award (FSRA), 2023

UMD Libraries Research Leave (sabbatical) 2023-2024

Slavery, Law, and Power, National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC) Grant 2023-2024 

ACRL Member of the Week, 17-Oct-2022, https://acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/acrl-member-of-the-week-jordan-s-sly/ 

CIFNAL/GNARP (Center for Research Libraries) Travel Award for the New Directions for Libraries, Scholars, and Partnerships: an International Symposium in Frankfurt, Germany, 2017

McDaniel College Faculty Travel Award, 2015.