Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
2024
The Conference on Latin American History’s Paul Vanderwood Prize for "Can the Devil Cross the Deep Blue Sea? Imagining the Spanish Pacific and Vast Early America from Below," The William and Mary Quarterly 79:1 (2022), 31-60.
Lester J. Cappon prize for the best article in the William and Mary Quarterly for "Can the Devil Cross the Deep Blue Sea? Imagining the Spanish Pacific and Vast Early America from Below," The William and Mary Quarterly 79:1 (2022), 31-60.
The LASA Mexico Section Best Article in the Humanities Prize for "Can the Devil Cross the Deep Blue Sea? Imagining the Spanish Pacific and Vast Early America from Below," The William and Mary Quarterly 79:1 (2022), 31-60.
The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) Article Prize for "Can the Devil Cross the Deep Blue Sea? Imagining the Spanish Pacific and Vast Early America from Below," The William and Mary Quarterly 79:1 (2022), 31-60.
Early Career Researcher Research Award for Research Excellence, Faculty of Arts and Education, ACU
New Colombo Mobility Grant, Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
2023
2022
Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant for Mobilising Dutch East India Company collections for new global stories. 2023-2026. Large project led by Alastair Patterson (UWA) with multiple museum and library partners.
Universities Australia & German Academic Exchange Service (UA-DAAD) Australia-Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme, ‘Child slaveries in the early modern world: Gender, trauma, and trafficking in transcultural perspective (1500-1800),' with Susan Broomhall, Jessica O'Leary, Claudia Jarzebowski, Lisa Phongsavath, Joseph Biggerstaff.
Australian Academy of the Humanities Research Travel Grant
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) residential fellowship (for 2024)
2021
Australian Academy of the Humanities Publication Subsidy Scheme
Research Award for Women Academic Staff, ACU
2020
Outstanding Dissertation Award for the best doctoral dissertation in Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin
Lathrop Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in History, UT Austin
2019
Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, Killam Foundation, Canada
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen *declined
Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Newberry Library *declined
2017
University Continuing Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin
2016
Bernadotte Schmitt Research Grant, The American Historical Association
Richard Maass Research Grant, The Manuscript Society
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library *declined
2015
Charles Montgomery Gray Fellowship, The Newberry Library
Mellon Summer Institute in Vernacular Paleography, The Huntington Library
Summer Land Institute, Cornell University
Paula Backscheider Archival Travel Award, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
The History Project Research Grant, The Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University and University of Cambridge
2014
Gunson Essay Prize in Pacific History, The Pacific History Association
Beca Teixidor, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Helm Fellowship, The Lilly Library
W. M. Keck Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington Library, Pasadena
2013
Scobie Award for Pre-Dissertation Research, Conference on Latin American History
Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant, Newberry Library