Selected Honors & Awards

Early Career Faculty Research Award (2023)

College of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Georgia

Outstanding Symposium Research Paper Award (2022)

Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education


Financial Education Database Training Fellowship (2022)

National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE)/Knology

Emerging Scholar Award (2022)

American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences

Richard L. D. Morse Early-Career Award (2022)

American Council on Consumer Interest

National Endowment for Financial Education Best Paper Award (2021)

American Council on Consumer Interests

The determinants of student loan behaviors, stress, and satisfaction

Co-Author:  Yu Zhang (University of Georgia)


Hazel M. Hatcher HES Teaching Scholar Award (2021)

College of Human Environmental Sciences, University of Missouri


Outstanding Symposium Research Paper Award (2019)

Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education


National Endowment for Financial Education Best Paper Award (2017)

American Council on Consumer Interests


Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (2017)

University of Georgia


NAGDCA Conference Travel Award & ANC Scholar Award (2016)

Arthur N. Caple Foundation