2025
U. of Wisconsin-Madison, General Research Support Award: Advocating paradigm shift in second language writing instruction--toward an inclusive pedagogy ($16,747)
2023
Chevalier (Knight), Order of Academic Palms, Embassy of France in the United States
2023
French Embassy in the U.S. Empowering French and Francophone Studies. Critical Competencies and Advanced French Studies: A Toolkit for Collegiate Educators and Advisors ($12,000) 2023 - 2025
U. of Wisconsin, Institute for Research in the Humanities Summer Research Fellowship: A Design orientation to second language writing instruction ($6,000)
U. of Wisconsin-Madison, General Research Support Award: Reconceptualizing second language writing instruction ($19,221)
2021
U. of Wisconsin-Madison, General Research Support Award: A Design orientation to second language writing instruction ($19,471)
U. of Wisconsin-Madison, Instructional Continuity Small Grant: Enhancing student-to-student learning in the French creative writing course ($5000)
2019
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Research Priorities Grant: Assessing written presentational communication: K-16 foreign language instructors’ perspectives and practices ($2000)
U. of Wisconsin-Madison, General Research Support Award: Foreign language instructors’ perspectives and practices of teaching writing: An Activity Theory perspective ($21,995)
2017
Nominee, Modern Language Association, Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize (with K. Paesani & B. Dupuy)
U. of Wisconsin-Madison, General Research Support Award: Implementing genre-based writing in the undergraduate French curriculum ($20,395)
2015
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Languages and Literacies Project, Invited Webinar Series on the Multiliteracies Approach (with K. Paesani & B. Dupuy, $7,500)
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Research Priorities Stage 4 Grant: High leverage teaching practices among experienced collegiate teaching assistants of French (with K. Paesani, $2500)
2013
Nominee, ACTFL-MLJ Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in Foreign Language Education
2010
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Research Priorities Grant: Merging language and content in the undergraduate foreign language curriculum (with K. Paesani, $500)
Univ. of Arizona, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy (Title VI Language
Resource Center): Preparing collegiate FL Teaching Assistants, Lecturers, and Adjunct Instructors to teach in multidisciplinary and multi-contexts (Co-Project Director with Beatrice Dupuy, $51,673, 2010-2014)
2009
U. of Miami, James W. Maclamore Summer Research Award: The emergence of self-regulated language learning: Insights from study abroad ($10,500)
2008
U. of Miami, General Research Support Award: An activity-theoretic perspective on linguistic and motivational outcomes of study abroad ($1,748)
U. of Miami, James W. Maclamore Summer Research Award: Goals and motives in study abroad ($9,300)
2007
U. of Miami, General Research Support Award with E. Negueruela: The development of cognition among novice foreign language teachers ($1,200)
2006
U. of Pittsburgh, Center for Western European Studies Research Grant: Second language identity and cultural learning abroad: An Activity Theory perspective ($1,300)
2005
U. of Pittsburgh, Hewlett International Grant: The Process of cultural learning: Study abroad participants as ethnographers ($2,120)
2004
High Performance Network Initiative Grant: Crossing cultural boundaries: Using technology to bring native speakers into the classroom ($20,521)
2003
Instructional Excellence Grant with V. M. Dristas: Web-based materials development in French and Italian ($15,378)
2002
Middlebury College Language Schools, Baker Summer Research Fellowship for Second Language Acquisition: The Culture of Learning in Immersion ($3,000)