* John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2022
* James W.C. Pennington Award, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2021
* Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester 2020-2021
* Mellon-Schlesinger Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2019-2020
Photo Credit: Kevin Daniel Grady, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,
Harvard University
* Elected Member, Society of American Historians, 2018-
Accepting the Kidger Award for excellence in teaching, research and writing, and service to the profession, New England History Teachers’ Association, April 2018
* Top 25 Women in Higher Education and Beyond, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education March 9, 2017
* 2017 19th Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York and Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University
Winning the Avery O. Craven Award for the Best Book on the Civil War Era,
Organization of the American Historians, April 2017
* James A. Rawley Prize for the Best Book on Secession and the Sectional Conflict Published in the Last Two Years, Southern Historical Association, 2017
* 2017 Best Book Prize, Society of Historians of the Early American Republic
* National Book Award for Non Fiction, Long List, September 2016
* Honorable Mention for US History, American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award), February 2017
* Elected Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2017-
* National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2016-2017
Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award in Recognition of Outstanding Graduate Teaching and Advising, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2016
Receiving the Chancellor’s Medal and Distinguished Faculty Lecture,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2011