2020: Dissertation Award of the Bavarian American Academy

2019: Lilli Bechmann-Rahn Prize 

2019: YERUN Fellow at the Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Odense

2017: Fulbright fellow at the  Department of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

2017: Dartmouth College Summer Institute “The Futures of American Studies,” BAA Fellow

2014: DAAD Travel Grant, Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, DePaul University, Chicago

2013: BAA Yale University Research Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance

2013: Fellow of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Spring Academy

2013: Travel Grant, Dr. Alfred-Vinzl-Foundation, Collegium for African American Research (CAAR), Emory University

2012: Fellow of the BAA Summer Academy “Democratic Cultures, Past and Present,” Washington, D.C.

2011: BAA Harvard University Research Fellowship

2011-2014: Post-Graduate Fellowship of the Bavarian State (Bayerische Eliteförderung)