Grants
External Funding
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, Jan-Dec, 2010
Alternate, American Council of Learned Societies, 2009
Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program Grant, 2006-2013 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Co-applicant: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice.
PI: Ajay Heble, Professor, University of Guelph, Ontario.
Haynes Foundation Grant, 2005-2006
Historical Society of Southern California
Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, 2003-2004
American Historical Association
National Park Service, Research Study Contract, 2001-2003
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
“A Feminist Perspective on New Orleans Jazz Women"
Internal Funding
Big XII Fellowship, Office of the Provost, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 2012-2013.
Hall Center for the Humanities Collaborative Research Seed Grant 2012-2013 Improvisation, Bodies, and Communities of Difference.Co-Applicant with Pauline Oliveros, Michelle Heffner Hayes, Nicole Hodges Persley, and Kip Haaheim.
Hall Center for the Humanities Research Fellowship, Fall 2006
Hall Center for the Humanities.
University of Kansas, General Research Fund, 2005-2006
“Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen.”
University of Kansas, General Research Fund, 2004-2005
“Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen."
Humanities Faculty Travel Grant, 2003-2004
Hall Center for the Humanities
University of Kansas, General Research Fund, 2003-2004
“Democracy on the Dance Floor: Race, Gender, and Nation at the Hollywood Canteen."
University of Kansas, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2003-2004
Principal investigator: KU Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Group
University of Kansas Center for Research, 2003-2004
Principal investigator: KU Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Group
University of Kansas, General Research Fund, 2002-2003
“Democracy on the Dance Floor: Race, Gender, and Nation at the Hollywood Canteen.”
Awards
2002-2003 Teaching
Award, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas.
2002. Philip Brett Prize, American Musicological Society. As contributor to winning book, Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity.
2001 Emily Toth Book Award, American Culture/Popular
Culture Association. Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940's.
1998 Article Award, Oral History Association. “Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band”
1998 Dissertation Fellowship, History of Consciousness, U.C. Santa Cruz
1995 Ki Mantle Hood Prize, Northern and Southern California Society for Ethnomusicology "West Coast Women: A Jazz Genealogy"
