Awards and Honors
Delman Fellowship, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences | January 2025
Selected for this honor among students across the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for a record of academic excellence.
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, Yale College | 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, Yale College | 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, Yale History Department | May 2021
Won this award for my senior essay, “The Ballad of Ambrose W. Thompson.”
The Jaime Yordán Prize, Yale Spanish & Portuguese Department | 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.”
Phi Beta Kappa, Yale College | May 2021
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa as one of students in the top 10% of the graduating Yale 2021 class year. Admittance based on the percentage of straight A grades.
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
Student Fellow at the Law, Ethics & Animals Program, Yale Law School | October 2024 to May 2025
Chosen to join this group focused on the moral, legal, and social connections between humans and animals. (Uncompensated.)
2050 Fellowship, Yale Center for Business and the Environment | September 2023 to May 2024
Selected to be part of a group of graduate and professional students to discuss how sectors of society can come together and envision more environmentally-sustainable policies. (Uncompensated.)
Environmental Humanities Fellowship, Yale Whitney Humanities Center | 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, U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs | September 2022 to June 2023
Awarded this national fellowship to be a Fulbright U.S. Student researcher. Lived and researched in Panama City, Panama for the 2022-2023 Academic Year.
The Charles and Julia Henry Fellowship, Henry Fund | September 2021 to June 2022
One of a few Harvard and Yale students awarded this highly competitive scholarship to fully fund 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.
Fox International Fellowship, Yale MacMillan Center | March 2021 (Declined)
Offered, but did not accept, this full scholarship for M.Phil. at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. This program selects candidates with the “potential to become leaders in areas of social impact.”
Short-Term Grants
Exploratory Research Grant, Hagley Museum and Library | July 2025
Supported for research on the relationship between the rise of the National Foreign Trade Council and the US colonial presence in Panama.
International Conference Travel Grant, Yale MacMillan Center | June 2025
Given money to cover costs of presenting at the annual conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Blue Center for Global Strategic Assessment Short-term Research and Travel Award, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs | April 2025
Supported for summer research at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland on the transition to Panamanian ownership of the Canal.
Center for Humanities & History of Modern BiologyResearch Grant, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | January 2025
Awarded funding to study archival collections in Cold Spring related to the ties among science, an Indigenous revolution, and environmental policy in Panama.
John F. Enders Research Grant, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences | 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, The Forest History Society | July 2024
Selected for this competitive grant administered by The Forest History Society and researched collections on forestry consulting held in North Carolina.
Travel Research Grant, Yale History Department | July 2024
Awarded departmental funds to support the study of collections related to environmental management and photography held at Princeton University.
Exploration Fund, Yale Tsai CITY | April 2022
Co-awarded seed funding to launch R.A.search, a startup that facilitates meaningful links between researchers and research assistants.
GIS Accelerator, Yale | December 2021
Chosen to participate in this program to integrate Geographic Information System training into my research.
Innovation and Catalyst Fund; Accelerator, Yale Tsai CITY | 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.
Research Fund Grant, Yale History Department | 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, Yale College | September 2020
Given funds to study the Ambrose W. Thompson Papers at the Library of Congress for my senior essay.
Dean’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Yale College | Summer 2020
Secured a competitive grant for original archival research on the Chiriquí Improvement Company.
Saybrook College Research Fellowship, Yale College | April 2020
Won travel funds that allowed me to present at SECOLAS 2020 in Austin, Texas.
Research and Conference Travel Award, Yale RITM | 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), Yale College | 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, Yale College | 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, Yale College | May 2019
Conducted research on Jorge Rafael Videla in Argentina; attended the 2019 SELA Gender and Equality Conference.