Selected Awards & Research Fellowships
- 2021, Awarded, Outstanding Faculty/Staff-Initiated Engagement Effort, Council on Community-Based Partnerships, University of Alabama for the SLIS Book Bonanza for the Black Belt (and Beyond) Program
- 2017, Awarded, Competitive Research Fellowship, Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature, California State University, Fresno, California.
- 2016, Awarded, Achievement in Library Diversity Research Award, American Library Association
- 2015, Awarded, Humanitarian Award, Alabama Library Association
- 2014, Awarded, Internationale Jugendbibliothek (International Youth Library) Research Fellowship, Auswärtiges Amt der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany), Munich, Germany
- 2013, Honored, Rainbow Family Collections featured in the Famiglie: Papà, mamma, fratelli, xii, nonni, cugini e amici international cultural exhibition of LGBTQ children’s books and research at the 2013 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Cooperativa Culturale Giannino Stoppani, Bologna, Italy
- 2013, Honored, Rainbow Family Collections selected for inclusion in VOYA’s Five-Foot Bookshelf: Essential Books for Professionals Who Serve Teens, 2000 through 2012 (representing the best resources for young adult librarianship in the twenty-first century)
- 2012, Awarded, Día Dynamo for significant contribution for the advancement and promotion of El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day), Latina Author Pat Mora
- 2009, Awarded, Virginia Hamilton Essay Award for Contribution to Professional Literature Representing Multicultural Literary Experiences of Youth, Kent State University