Selected Awards and Honors

Film Scholars Grant, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 2003

Visiting Scholar, Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr College, 2003

University of California President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities, 2001

Visiting Scholar, University of Colorado at Boulder (Film Studies and Women’s Studies), 2001

Movie-Struck Girls Named to Choice Magazine's List of Outstanding Academic Titles, 2000

Movie-Struck Girls Named Finalist for Theater Library Association Book Award, 2000

Scholar-in-Residence, Queen’s University (Film Studies and Women’s Studies), 2000

Excellence in Teaching Award, UC-Santa Cruz, 1998

Katherine Singer Kovacs Essay Prize, Society for Cinema Studies, Honorable Mention, 1998

Porter College Faculty Advisor of the Year, 1997

Screen Magazine's Award for Excellence, 1995

Society for Cinema Studies Dissertation Prize, First Runner-Up, 1995

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Consultancies

Turner Classic Movies, for their Women Pioneers series on silent film directors

American Movie Classics, for a documentary on the history of film censorship