Honors
• Leo P. Ribuffo Prize for best dissertation in U.S. intellectual history
Society for U.S. Intellectual History, 2024.
• Anthony Sutcliffe Dissertation Award for best English-language dissertation in
the history of city planning, International Planning History Society, 2024.
• Honorable Mention, Michael Katz Award for best dissertation in urban history
Urban History Association, 2024.
• History Prize Instructorship
History Department, Harvard University, Spring 2023.
• Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for excellence in the art of teaching (2x)
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 2022 and 2023.
• Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, Spring 2021.
• Raymond J. Cunningham Prize
American Historical Association, for best article published in an undergraduate history journal,
awarded to “The South Shall Ride Again: The Origins of MARTA and the Making of the Urban South,” 2014.
• Writing Contest Winner for a model essay in the discipline of history
Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University,
awarded to “In the Fold of America: Immigration Politics in the Alien and Sedition Era,” 2013.
A younger me, accepting the Cunningham Prize at AHA 2015.