Academic Awards & Honors
- Excellence in Education Award, Black Hills State University Alumni Association, 2021.
- Owen Kulemeka Trailblazer Award in Diversity, Gaylord College, 2020.
- 1 for All grant ($2,000), program for Public Relations Campaigns course project on First Amendment sponsored by The Free Speech Center, 2020.
- OU Presidential Dream Course ($20,000 grant) award for course on Sports Marketing and Public Relations, 2018-2019.
- Service-Learning Award winner, Mass Communication & Society Division of Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2017.
- Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Award winner, LSU Outstanding Faculty awards committee and Center for Community Engagement Learning and Leadership (CCELL) at LSU, 2016.
- Teaching Enhancement Fund support to attend IPRRC Conference in Miami, FL, LSU, Spring 2016.
- “Happy” service-learning award winner, Center for Community Engagement Learning and Leadership (CCELL) at LSU, 2015.
- Kopenhaver Fellow, Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication, 2015-2016.
- Public Relations Educator of the Year, Southern Public Relations Federation (SPRF) - Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, 2014.
- State of Louisiana Public Relations Educator of the Year, Public Relations Association of Louisiana (PRAL), 2014.
- Promising Professor (3rd) award winner, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) - Mass Communication & Society Division, 2014.
- Ketchum award to use MindFire Challenges in strategic communication courses (three students won individual MindFire Challenges).
- SCVNGR award to use geolocation-based mobile gaming application in public relations writing courses.
- Center for Community Engagement, Learning & Leadership (CCELL) at LSU recognition for highest service-learning course evaluations within entire university, Fall 2013.
- Teaching Enhancement Fund support to attend PRSSA National Conference in Philadelphia, PA, Louisiana State University, Fall, 2013.
- Center for Community Engagement, Learning, and Leadership service-learning teaching grant. Sponsored by University Presbyterian Church, 2012.
- Scripps Howard Leadership Academy, Louisiana State University, Manship School of Mass Communication, 2011.
- Golden Quill Award for Outstanding Teaching, West Virginia University, P.I. Reed School of Journalism. 2010-2011.
- Kappa Tau Alpha National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2007.
- Golden Key International Honour Society, 2007.