Recent Awards, Grants & Professional Activities
Fellowships and Awards
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, Summer 2006; designated a "We the People Project"
- LSU Council on Research Grant, Summer 2006
- Kemper and Leila Williams Prize, Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association, for Reconstruction in the Cane Fields, 2002
- LSU Council on Research Grant, Summer 2003
- Sabbatical Leave, LSU, Fall 2002
- Faculty Honor Roll, LSU Campus-Community Coalition for Change, Spring 2001
- Roselyn Boneno Prize for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching, LSU History Department, 1999
- LSU Non-Tenured Faculty Research Fellowship, Fall 1999
- Summer Stipend, 1997
- LSU Council on Research St. George Tucker Society Dissertation Award, 1994
- Predoctoral Fellow, Emory University, Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowship in Southern Studies, 1991-92
- Predoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, 1990-91
- Emory University Fellowship in History, 1986-1990
- Matthew's Travel Fund Awards, Emory University Department of History, 1988, 1989
- Phi Beta Kappa, 1983
- Edward Zabriskie Prize, Rutgers University Department of History, 1983
- Garden State Scholarships, Rutgers University, 1979-1983
Membership in Professional Associations
- American Historical Association
- Organization of American Historians
- Southern Historical Association
- Louisiana Historical Association
- Agricultural History Society
- St. George Tucker Society
- The Historical Society