In the years since I entered the Ph.D. program at USF, I have earned several merit-based financial awards; research fellowship grants; presentation grants; and other awards. In consecutive years, I have been selected by the USF student government to be awarded a travel grant for the presentation of my research. Also in consecutive years, I have been awarded the Fred L. and Helen M. Tharp Endowed Research Fellowship. Among others, I have presented my research in Cologne, Germany; Columbia, South Carolina, USA; and New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. In addition, this year I was also selected as a winner of the (USF) Office of Graduate Studies International Travel Grant Competition. The associated award substantially covered ($1,500+) the cost of my recent presentation at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) in Cardiff, Wales, UK. The presentation was part of a session organized by the noted Dutch geographer Dr. Erik Swyngedouw (also with Drs. Kathleen Stokes and Henrik Ernston), called “Geographies of Multi-scalar Waste Economies.”
In addition to the research-related awards discussed above, I have also been fortunate enough to be recognized for aspects of my teaching and professional service. After my semester of service on the USF Graduate Committee and the associated Curriculum Committee concluded in the spring of 2018, I was recognized for outstanding performance and a lasting contribution by the Dean of the Graduate School and the Chair of the Committee. Also in the spring of 2018, I was honored by the USF office of the Provost and with an honorable mention for the Provost’s Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the STEM category. In this competition, honorable mention was a second place finish in the College of Arts and Sciences, a division of USF with sixty-five graduate programs.