Awards and Honors
Mavis Batey Essay Prize, The Gardens Trust | October 2022
Awarded joint first prize in this international competition for young scholars who produce “vibrant, scholarly writing and new research” related to any aspect of garden history. This essay, titled An ‘Imaginary Landscape’: Bentham’s Botanical Vision for the Panopticon, is an adapted section from my Cambridge dissertation.
Mountford Humanities and Arts Communications Prize, University of Cambridge | March 2022
One of four Girton College students chosen to present. Awarded best abstract for Carving Out a Collective Identity.
Alpheus Henry Snow Prize | June 2021
Awarded the highest university-wide honor at Yale College given “to the senior who, through the combination of intellectual achievement, character and personality, shall be adjudged by the faculty to have done the most for Yale by inspiring in his or her classmates an admiration and love for the best traditions of high scholarship combination of intellectual achievement, character, and personality.”
Saybrook College Banner Bearer | May 2021
Selected as one of the 14 banner bearers at Yale to represent my residential college, Saybrook, at the commencement procession.
The Percival Wood Clement Prize | May 2021
Won this award from the Yale History Department for my senior essay, “The Ballad of Ambrose W. Thompson.”
The Jaime Yordán Prize | May 2021
Won this prize for the most outstanding essay in Spanish literature and culture for my piece, “Larra, el moderno europeo: El Castellano Viejo y la invención del flâneur.”
Yale Phi Beta Kappa | May 2021
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa as the top 10% of the graduating Yale 2021 class year.
Sigma Delta Pi, the National Hispanic Honor Society | November 2020
Elected to this National Honor Society by faculty in the Spanish & Portuguese Department at Yale.
Year-Long Fellowships
Whitney Humanities Center Environmental Humanities Fellowship | August 2023 to May 2024
One of the few selected to be part of this interdisciplinary cohort of Yale doctoral students studying the environmental humanities.
Fulbright Scholarship | September 2022 to June 2023
Awarded this national fellowship by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to live and research in Panama City, Panama for the 2022-2023 Academic Year.
The Charles and Julia Henry Fellowship | September 2021 to June 2022
One of a few Harvard and Yale students awarded this highly competitive scholarship to fully fund my M.Phil. at the University of Cambridge. Following the 1927 will of Lady Julia Henry, it is rooted “in the earnest hope and desire of cementing bonds of friendship” between Britain and the United States of America.
Short-Term Grants
John F. Enders Research Grant | July 2024
Selected for this fellowship among an applicant pool across Yale graduate programs. Researched the National Archives in College Park, Maryland.
Alfred D. Bell Jr., Travel Grant | July 2024
Selected for this competitive grant administered by The Forest History Society and researched collections on forestry consulting held in North Carolina.
Yale History Travel Research Grant | July 2024
Awarded departmental funds to support the study of collections related to environmental management and photography held at Princeton University.
Yale Tsai CITY Exploration Fund | April 2022
Co-awarded seed funding to launch R.A.search, a startup that facilitates meaningful links between researchers and research assistants.
Yale GIS Accelerator | December 2021
Chosen to participate in this program to integrate Geographic Information System training into my research.
Yale Tsai CITY Innovation and Catalyst Fund; Accelerator | October 2020, March 2021, May 2021
Selected to join an intensive entrepreneurship program and received investments to grow Publish and Prosper.
The Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Seed Grant | December 2020
Awarded this selective award to join faculty and graduate students at the Sawyer Seminar series at Yale.
Yale History Research Fund | September 2020
Awarded money from the History Department to offset costs for my thesis research on nineteenth-century U.S. expansionism in Panama.
Mellon Senior Research Grant | September 2020
Given funds to study the Ambrose W. Thompson Papers at the Library of Congress for my senior essay.
Yale College Dean’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences | Summer 2020
Secured a competitive grant for original archival research on the Chiriquí Improvement Company.
Saybrook College Research Fellowship | April 2020
Won travel funds that allowed me to present at SECOLAS 2020 in Austin, Texas.
Yale RITM Research and Conference Travel Award | February 2020
Received support from a fund to enable me to present my paper at the 23rd annual Brian Bertoti Conference.
Yale Creative and Performing Arts Award (Twice) | February 2020 & September 2020
Won this grant to form a new student journal of research and awarded a second time for a podcast I co-founded.
Bruce M. Babcock ’62 Travel Research Fellowship | January 2020
Conducted archival research at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri to finish an essay on the Panama Canal.
Lewis P. Curtis Fellowship | May 2019
Conducted research on Jorge Rafael Videla in Argentina; attended the 2019 SELA Gender and Equality Conference.