American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Junior Faculty Fellow
Lilly Fellow, Macalester College (received Lilly Course Development Award, Fall 2001)
William F. Milton Fund Recipient, 2001 (a $24,000 research grant from the Harvard Medical School to fund research in language theory)
Mellon Dissertation Finishing Year Fellowship, 1997-1998
Dexter Traveling Fellowship, Summer 1997
Distinguished Teaching Awards: Spring 1996, Fall 1996, Spring 1997
Member of the Derek Bok Center's Senior Teaching Fellows Program, 1996-1997 (a workshop for teaching fellows in the arts and sciences who received the highest ratings in University-wide evaluations; met biweekly to research pedagogical techniques and to promote the quality of teaching at Harvard through such initiatives as the Senior Teaching Fellows Mentoring Program)
Fellow in the John F. Kennedy School of Government Program in Ethics, 1994-1995 (fully funds one year of independent research; Fellows work in association with distinguished academics in the fields of law, business, medicine, and the humanities)
Mellon Fellowship for Summer Research, 1995
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 1994-1998
English Prize Fellowship, 1992-1994
Thouron Scholarship, 1991-1992 (academic/diplomatic scholarship designed to foster Anglo-American relations; fully funds one year of post-graduate study)