Fellowships & Research Grants

2026   Humanities Research and Creative Laboratories Grant. College of Humanities and Fine Arts, UMass. The Art(e)facts Project.
Co-Director with Malcolm Sen.

2025   Strategic Partnerships to Advance Research and Creative activity (SPARC) Grant. Archipelago: Climate Change and Adaptation in the
Azores. (Edie Meidav PI) UMass Amherst.

2024 Grant-in-Aid. Shakespeare, Publics, and the Humanities (2024-2025)

2024   Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Race, Place, and the Non-Human

2023   Interdisciplinary Research Grant, Anthropocene Lab, UMass Amherst. Team Grant.

2023   Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Global Early Modern Trans Studies

2020 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

2018    Five College Consortium Lecture Fund, ‘Shakespeare and the African Diaspora’

2016    Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Visualizing English Print  

2015    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC.

2011-14 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant. PI. (2011-2014)

2014     Research Competitiveness Fund. Office of the Vice-Principal Research, UTSC.

2014     Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Institutional Grant (SIG). Department of English, UTSC.

2013 Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowship in Renaissance England (4 months). The Huntington Library

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

2011     Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences Grant.
Co-PI: Nicholas Terpstra (2011)

2011     Jackman Humanities Institute, Program for the Arts Grant. Between Worlds: Robert Daborne’s A Christian Turn’d Turke (1612), performance.
University of Toronto

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     Jackman Humanities Institute, Working Group Grant. Early Modern Exiles. Co-lead with Nicholas Terpstra. University of Toronto.
(2010-2011& 2011-2012)

2010    Grant-in-Aid, Folger Institute: Crossroads of Amsterdam

2009   Co-curricular Initiatives Project Grant, Office of Arts and Events Programming, UTSC. Conversations in the Humanities, Faculty Speaker
Series (2009-2010)

2008    Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Residential Fellow (4 months). The Huntington Library

2008    Connaught New Faculty Start-Up Grant. Connaught Foundation. University of Toronto

2008    New Faculty Research Grant. Department of Humanities, UTSC

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

2006    Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellow. University of Michigan (2006-2007)

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

2004    Travel Grant. Newberry Consortium for Renaissance Studies. The Newberry Library

2003    Travel Grant. Newberry Consortium for Renaissance Studies. The Newberry Library