Honors, Awards, and Professional Distinctions
Spring 2027
CBA Visiting Professorship ÉBAF
École Biblique et Archéologique Française, Jerusalem, Israel
2025
Catholic Biblical Association
Research Grant
$10,000 for research on messianism project
2022
Catholic Biblical Association
Research Grant
$15,000 for research toward An Embodied Reading of the Shepherd of Hermas (2023)
2021
President
New England / Eastern Canada Region of the Society of Biblical Literature
2014
Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow
European Commission (309,235 Euros)
2011
Distinguished Teaching Award
Fairfield University, College of Arts and Sciences
2011
Honorary Faculty Member
Alpha Mu Gamma: National Collegiate Foreign Language Honor Society
2010
Pre-Tenured Fellow
Wabash Center for Teaching in Religion and Theology
1997
Fulbright Student Award
Hebrew University, Jerusalem Israel
1997
Research Award
Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jerusalem, Israel
1997
Interuniversity Fellow in Jewish Studies
Brooklyn College, for study at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel