Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad in China. The History & Culture of China. June & July 2007.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar in South Africa. South Africa: Continuity & Change. June-August 2006.
Caldwell Prize for Writing. History Department, University of Massachusetts-AmherstReceived for “Redefining Reconciliation: Confederate Veterans and the Southern Responses to Civil War Pensions,” published in the Journal of Civil War History, Spring 2005.