Honors and Teaching Awards
- Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, 2025–2026
- President’s Teaching Excellence Award for Teaching Assistants (Honorable Mention), 2024–2025
- Victor Worsfold Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant, 2023–2024
- President’s Teaching Excellence Award for Teaching Assistants (Nominated), 2023–2024
Scholarly Fellowships and Research Grants
- Mala and Adolph Einspruch Fellowship and Selwin Belofsky Fellowship, 2025–2026
- Elfenworks Hope for Climate and Social Justice Development Fund, 2025
- Mike Jacobs Fellowship, 2024–2025
- Jonelle & Bryce Jordan Scholarship in the Arts, 2024–2025 and Spring 2023
- Harry W. Bass Jr. Graduate Research Award, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
- Istvan and Zsuzsanna Ozsváth Research Award, 2023–2024 and 2021–2022
- Anthony (Tony) Cross Memorial Student Support Fund, Fall 2023
- Armstrong Fellowship Scholarship, 2021–2022
Selected Travel Awards and Conference Grants
- SCMS Transnational Cinemas SIG Travel Grant Spring 2025
- SCMS Middle East Caucus Travel Grant, Spring 2024
- Mabel H. Bremer Travel Award, 2023–2024 and 2021–2022
- Betty and Gifford Johnson Travel Award, 2022–2023 and 2021–2022
- Graduate Student Assembly Travel Award, 2022–2023
Film Festival Awards & Selections
Exile Echoes (2024)
Award Winner: Austin International Film Festival, Five Continents International Film Festival, USA Film Festival, Silver Wings International Film Festival, The Impact DOCS Awards, Global Film Festival Awards, Washington DC International Cinema Festival, Austin Indie Fest, The IndieFEST Film Awards
Official Selection: Crown Wood International Film Festival, Anatolia International Film Festival, New York Istanbul Short Film Festival, Orlando International Film Festival, Los Angeles Short Film Award, Golden Short Film Festival, I, Immigrant, REEL East Texas Film Festival, Courage Film Festival, Sunshine City Film Festival
Honorable Mention: International Motion Picture Awards, Milwaukee Independent Film Awards, Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival, Cinema Carnival, ATX Short Film Showcase (Austin’s Monthly Film Festival), Cinematech International Film Festival, London Global Film Awards
Finalist: Caravan International Film Festival
Nominee: Digital Griffix Film Awards, Woman, Life, Freedom Film Festival
Semi-Finalist: Luleå International Film Festival
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A Drop at a Time (2025)
Award Winner: Dallas Movie Fest
Official Selection: Golden Bridge İstanbul Short Film Festival, World Water Film Festival, Anatolia International Film Festival, A Pecan Pickling Film Festival
Finalist: International Disaster Film Festival, My Name Is Climate Film Festival
Honorable Mention: Tracce Cinematografiche Film Fest, Monza Film Fest
Selected: Eugene Environmental Film Festival
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Return of the Repressed (2023)
Selected: Femifilms, BAM! Festival
Semi-Finalist: Student World Impact Film Festival