Book of the Year Award, Conference on Christianity and Literature, December 2008 [Reading in the Wilderness]

Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for a distinguished book by a junior faculty member in the humanities at Yale, Fall 2006 [Reading in the Wilderness]

Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize for the Best First Article in the field of Medieval Studies published in 1999, Medieval Academy of America, 2001 [“The Iconography of the Utrecht Psalter and the Old English Descent into Hell”]

Research Grants:

ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, a year-long fellowship held at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 2015-16

Solmsen Fellowship, a year-long fellowship to be held at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015-16 [declined]

Mellon Grant for “Enabling Digital Scholarship,” a three-year multi-institution project concerning digitization of manuscripts (Faculty Investigator), 2012-15.

Benjamin N. Duke Fellowship of the Research Triangle Foundation, a year-long fellowship held at the National Humanities Center, 2008-09 [spring only]

Director’s Award, The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International Studies at Yale, 2008-10

Griswold Travel Grant, Whitney Humanities Center, Summer 2005

Morse Fellowship, 2003-04

Griswold Travel Grant, Whitney Humanities Center, Summer 2003

Fulbright Grant for Graduate Study and Research Abroad (UK), 1993-94