Awards and Recognition

2021: Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education, Associate Professor level, Rutgers University – New Brunswick School of Arts and Sciences

2021: Faculty Mentor Award, Rutgers University – New Brunswick  First-year Interest Group Seminars (FIGS) Program

2020: Linguistic Service Award (shared), Linguistic Society of America for the Pop-Up Mentoring Program (PUMP) Initiative

2018: Early Career Award, Linguistic Society of America. One award presented annually: “This award recognizes scholars early in their career who have made outstanding contributions to the field of linguistics.” 

2017: Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, Rutgers University – New Brunswick School of Arts and Sciences

2013: Best Paper Written by an Untenured Scientist, Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics

2008-2011: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Post-Doctoral Fellowship, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

2007: Linguistic Service Award, Linguistic Society of America (the first such award presented to a student by the LSA)

2007: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), Rutgers University – New Brunswick

2005-2007: Presidential Fellowship, The Graduate School, Northwestern University (the most prestigious honor bestowed to a graduate student at Northwestern University: full tuition, stipend, appointment to the Society of Fellows)

2003-2005: Bernard and Julia Bloch Memorial Fellowship, Linguistic Society of America (the most prestigious Institute fellowship presented by the LSA)

2001: Language and Cognition Fellowship, Northwestern University (full tuition, stipend)

1993-1997: Archdiocesan Scholarship, The Catholic University of America (the most prestigious scholarship presented to an incoming student: four years of full tuition)