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