External Fellowships & Research Grants
2024-25 Grant-in-Aid. Shakespeare, Publics, and the Humanities (2024-2025)
2024 Five Colleges Incorporated, Building Academic Leaders in the Humanities Program, NEH (declined)
2024 Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Race, Place, and the Non-Human
2023 Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Global Early Modern Trans Studies
2019-20 MassHumanities Grant, PI. Community Shakespeare
2019 Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Intersecting the Sexual: Modes of Early Modern Embodiment
2019 Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: The Languages of Nature
2019 Short Term Residential Fellowship, The Huntington Library
2018 Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Digging the Past: Writing and Agriculture in the Seventeenth Century
2016 Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Visualizing English Print
2013 Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowship in Renaissance England (4 months). The Huntington Library
2011-14 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant. PI. (2011-2014) ($46,601, over three years)
2012 Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Grant for Symposium on the English and Dutch in the Early Modern World. Co-applicant: Kristina Bross , Dean and Professor of History, Purdue (2012)
2011 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences Grant ($15,000). Co-applicant: Nicholas Terpstra (2011)
2010 Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Crossroads of Amsterdam
2008 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Residential Fellow (4 months). The Huntington Library
2006 Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Research Fellow in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies. University of Warwick, UK
2006 Travel Grant. Newberry Consortium for Renaissance Studies. The Newberry Library
2004 Travel Grant. Newberry Consortium for Renaissance Studies. The Newberry Library
2003 Travel Grant. Newberry Consortium for Renaissance Studies. The Newberry Library
Internal Fellowships & Grants for Research
2025 Strategic Partnerships to Advance Research and Creative activity (SPARC) Grant. Archipelago: Climate Change and Adaptation in the Azores. UMass Amherst. ($10,000)
2023 Interdisciplinary Research Grant, Anthropocene Lab, UMass Amherst. ($46,100)
2018 Five College Consortium Lecture Fund, ‘Shakespeare and the African Diaspora’ ($1000)
2016 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC.
2015 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC.
2014 Research Competitiveness Fund. Office of the Vice-Principal Research, UTSC. ($10,000)
2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC.
2010 Jackman Humanities Institute, Working Group Grant. Early Modern Exiles. Co-lead with Nicholas Terpstra. University of Toronto. (2010-2011& 2011-2012)
2011 Jackman Humanities Institute, Program for the Arts Grant. Between Worlds: Robert Daborne’s A Christian Turn’d Turke (1612), performance. University of Toronto ($3000)
2011 Research Grant. Office of the Vice-Principal Research, UTSC ($2000)
2011 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC
2010 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC
2009 Co-curricular Initiatives Project Grant, Office of Arts and Events Programming, UTSC. Conversations in the Humanities, Faculty Speaker Series (2009-2010)
2008 Connaught New Faculty Start-Up Grant. Connaught Foundation. University of Toronto ($10,000)
2008 New Faculty Research Grant. Department of Humanities, UTSC ($5000)
2006 Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellow. University of Michigan (2006-2007)
2006 Institute for the Humanities Graduate Student Fellowship. University of Michigan (declined)
2005 Rackham Humanities Research Dissertation Fellowship. University of Michigan (2005-2006)
2005 Rackham Graduate School Summer Research Travel Grant. University of Michigan
2004 Rackham Humanities Research Candidacy Fellowship. University of Michigan
2004 Rackham/Hewlett/International Institute International Travel Grant. University of Michigan
2004 Grant-in-Aid, Women’s Studies Department, University of Michigan
2003 English Department Summer Funding Fellowship. University of Michigan (2003, 2004, 2005, & 2006)
2003 English Department Dissertation Research Grant. University of Michigan
2003 Center for European Studies Summer Research Grant. University of Michigan