Awards for Teaching &
Writing Excellence

Arts Achievement Award from the Arts Alliance of the Mountain Empire (May 2023)

Cleva Marrow Memorial Non-Fiction Prize for “Tenderizing Our Hearts” Essay (April 2023)

Choice! Oustanding Academic Title Award for The Sound of Hope: Music as Solace, Resistance and Salvation During the Holocaust and World War II (2021)

Outstanding Teaching Award from the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts (2011)

YWCA Woman of the Year Award for the Arts: Bristol, TN (2009)