Grants, fellowships, and awards

2022 Early Career Investigator Award (American Society of Naturalists)

2021 Evolution Seminar Series Early Career Award (J. F. Crow Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2021-2023 NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology: Rules of Life Track


2020-2023 Center for Population Biology Postdoctoral Fellowship


2020 James F. Crow Early Career Researcher Finalist (Genetics Society of America)

2020 Life Sciences Research Fellowship Finalist

2019 Hamilton Award Finalist (Society for the Study of Evolution)

2018 Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship Award

The adaptive advantage of sex in social insects

Co-written with Carl Veller and Richard Childers

PIs: David Haig and Naomi Pierce

2016 Harvard Distinction in Teaching Award

2014-2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship


2014-2017 James Mills Peirce Fellowship


2013-2014 Fulbright Graduate Student Research Fellowship


2012 Tanner Dean Undergraduate Support Grant

2012 Einhorn Discovery Grant

2012 Andrew C. Mellon Research Grant

2012 Cornell Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Grant

2011 EDEN Undergraduate Research Award

2010 Shoals Marine Laboratory Sturgis Scholarship

2010 Shoals Marine Laboratory Bartels Scholarship

2009 Pauline and Irving Tanner Dean Scholar