Awards/Grants

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2020: Carolina International Film Festival. Gold Award for best International Documentary Feature for "Germans in Jamaica: Of War, Spies and Camps". Florence, S.C.

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2020: Recipient of Foreign Scholar Exchange Award to lecture at the University of Trier. Award received by the Office of International Educational Programs, Appalachian State University and the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures ($3000)

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2019: South Film and Arts Academy Festival. Best Screenplay In A Documentary Feature Film for "Germans in Jamaica: Of War, Spies and Camps". Rancagua, Chile.

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2018: Palm Bay Caribe Film Festival. Award of Excellence, Palm Bay, Florida, May 31, 2018 for documentary "Germans in Jamaica: Of War, Spies and Camps".

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2018:​ Impact DOCS Award of Merit winner for documentary "Germans in Jamaica: Of War, Spies and Camps".

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2017: Houston Caribbean Film Festival. Semi-Finalist for documentary "Germans in Jamaica: Of War, Spies and Camps" ​

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2016: AppOn 2016. Online Course Development Grant. Center for Academic Excellence. Appalachian State University ($2500)

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2014: Fourteen for 2014. Online Course Development Grant. Learning Technology Services ($5000)

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2013: Recipient of Foreign Scholar Exchange Award to lecture at the University of Trier. Award received by the Office of International Educational Programs, Appalachian State University and the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures ($2500)

 

2013: Award Nominee for the Wayne Duncan Faculty Enrichment and Teaching Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching in General Education 

 

2012: Recipient of the Appalachian State Global Leadership Award ($2000)

The Global Leadership Awards Program is an annual award to recognize students, faculty and staff who have made a significant contribution to advance global learning at Appalachian. This award recognizes extraordinary contributions of students, faculty and staff who have initiated, developed and/or supported opportunities for global learning.

 

2012: Recipient of  the UNC Board of Governor’s Excellence in Teaching

Award (Appalachian State University School/College Award) ($1500). The Board of Governors gives this award to a tenured faculty member on  each campus of the UNC System for excellent and exceptional undergraduate teaching over a period of time.

 

2009: Faculty Fellow Development Grant ($700)

 

2007: Grants from The Office of International Education and Development,

the German Embassy, the Jamaica School of Music, as well as a travel grant

from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Appalachian

StateUniversity to Kingston, Jamaica to organize the “German Cultural

Evening on Goethe and his Age”. ($7000)

 

2005: University Research Council Grant: "Peter Paul Zahl: Sympathizer,

Exile, Writer and Poet" ($1000)

 

2004: Recipient of Foreign Scholar Exchange Award to lecture at the

University of Trier. Award received by the Office of International Educational

Programs, Appalachian State University ($2000)

 

2003: Foreign Scholarly Travel Grant to Jamaica from the Office of

International Programs, Appalachian State University ($2500)

 

2000-01: Appointed member of the College of Arts and Sciences Academy of

Outstanding Teachers

 

2000-01: Nominated for the UNC Board of Governors Teaching Award

 

1999-00: Nominated for the UNC Board of Governors Teaching Award

 

1999: Recipient of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors

Excellence in Teaching Award (Appalachian State University School/College

Award). The Board of Governors gives this award to a tenured faculty

member on each campus of the UNC System for excellent and exceptional

undergraduate teaching over a sustained period of time.

 

1997-98: Nominated for the UNC Board of Governors Teaching Award

 

1996-97: Nominated to the College of Arts and Sciences Academy of  Outstanding Teachers

                 Nominated for the UNC Board of Governors Teaching Award 

 

1996:  $3000 from the German company Klingspor for Distance Learning program to high schools

 

1995-96: Articles in the Appalachian Todav, Appalachian A&S, and Watauga Democrat for initiating the Distance Learning Program at Appalachian State University

 

1994-95: Certificate of Appreciation from the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program in recognition of dedication and commitment to cultural and educational enrichment

 

1993-92: National AATG for Vergnügungsfest-Immersion Weekend for NC State high school students ($2000)