FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS, 1983-2004:

2004              MSU Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Mini-grant         

2003              MnSCU Center for Teaching and Learning:  "Learning that Lasts" Grant

2003              MSU Faculty Research Grant

2002               Faculty Improvement Grant

2002               Teaching Scholar Fellowship, Minnesota State University

2000               Residency Award, Norcroft Writers' Retreat

1999-2000      Learning Fund Assessment Grant: Honors Program, Minnesota State U.

1998-99          Faculty Instructional Innovation Grant, MnSCU

1998-99          Work-in-Progress Grant:   Diaries of Girls and Women

                              Minnesota Humanities Commission & NEH

1998               Learning Fund Initiative Grant for Course Development, MSU

1998               Faculty Research Grant: Diaries of Girls and Women

1997-98          Research Grant and Mini-Grant, Minnesota Historical Society

1996-97          Travel and Study Grant, The Jerome Foundation, St. Paul, MN

1995-96          Bush Leadership Fellowship, Bush Foundation, St. Paul, MN

1995-96          Faculty Research Grant: "The Diary of Sarah Jane Kimball, 1854-1912," MSU

1994               Faculty Improvement Grant: "Illegitimacy and Identity," MSU

1993               Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities

1992-93         Academic Affairs Research Grant: In Search of Susanna

1991-92         Faculty Research Grant: An Edition of Sarah Gillespie Huftalen's Diary

1990-91         Honorary Fellow, Women's Studies Research Center, University of Wisconsin

1990               Faculty Research Grant: Nineteenth-Century, American Women's Diaries

1989               Faculty Research Grant: Guidebook for Teaching Assistants in English, MSU

1989              Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities

1989              Travel for Research Award, American Antiquarian Society

1988               Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, Belgium and Luxembourg

1987               Research Grant, American Council of Learned Societies

1987-88         Honorary Fellow, Institute for Research in Humanities, U. Wisconsin 

1986-87         Fellowship for College and University Teachers,

                                    National Endowment for the Humanities

1986-88         Affiliated Scholar, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, U. Minnesota

1986               Summer Stipend for Research, National Endowment for the Humanities

1985               Faculty Research Grant:  British Library, London

                             Bodleian Library, Oxford University

1984               Honorary Fellow, Women's Studies Research Center, University of Wisconsin

1984               President's Faculty Research Lecturer, Mankato State University

1984               Faculty Research Grant: Midwestern Women's, Unpublished Diaries and 

                                Journals, Mankato State University

1983               Faculty Research Grant: Women's Autobiography, Mankato State University

1983               Summer NEH Seminar: "Forms of Autobiography", U. North Carolina

1983               Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities