- 2021-2022: Andrew W. Mellon Transformative Learning in the Humanities, Faculty Fellow, City University of New York
- 2020: Hispanic-Serving While Online Working Group, John Jay College, Co-Directors Dr. Isabel Martinez and Prof. Jose Luis Morín
- 2019-2020: Practical Teaching for Resilient Learning Seminar, John Jay College, Teaching and Learning Center
- 2019: Improving Online Student Engagement Seminar, John Jay College, Teaching and Learning Center
- 2018: 2nd Place Winner, International Latino Book Award for Best Women’s Issues Book, Latino Literacy Now
- 2018: Improving Online Teaching for Student Success Faculty Seminar, John Jay College, Teaching and Learning Center
- 2018: Faculty Scholarly Excellence Award, John Jay College
- 2017: Book Publication Award, Office for the Advancement of Research, John Jay College, $1,000
- 2017: Co-recipient of the Community Event Funding Award, Office for the Advancement of Research, John Jay College, $3,000
- 2016-2017: Online/Digital Teaching Faculty Seminar, John Jay College
- 2016: Outstanding Scholarly Mentoring Award, John Jay College
- 2016: Digital Portfolios Faculty Fellowship, John Jay College
- 2016: Discover, Design and Develop (D3) Online Teaching Faculty Fellowship, John Jay College
- 2015: Co-recipient of the Community Event Funding Award, Office for the Advancement of Research, John Jay College, $3,000
- 2015: Antonia I. Castañeda Essay Award, National Assoc. of Chicana and Chicano Studies
- 2014-2015: Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Research Council, $40,000
- 2014-2015: American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Fellowship, $30,000 (declined)
- 2014: Selected participant in the Young Scholars Symposium, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame
- 2014: Faculty Recognition, multiple nominations by Undergraduate Dean’s List students, John Jay College
- 2013-2014: The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, City University of New York Graduate Center, Faculty Fellowship, co-directed by David Harvey, Sujatha Fernandes and Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- 2013: Professional Staff Congress – City University of New York Grant, $4,389.00
- 2013: Faculty Recognition, nominated by an Undergraduate Dean’s List student, John Jay College
- 2012: Faculty Fellowship Publication Program, City University of New York, directed by Shelly Eversley
- 2012: American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Faculty Fellowship
- 2012: Faculty Recognition, nominated by an Undergraduate Dean’s List student, John Jay College
- 2009: Frederick Cervantes Graduate Essay Award, National Assoc. of Chicana and Chicano Studies
- 2007: Provost’s Diversity Fellowship, Cornell University
- 2006, 2008: Graduate Research Grant, Latino Studies Program, Cornell University
- 2004-2005: Sage Fellowship, Department of English, Cornell University
- 2004: Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles (declined)
