Honors, Awards, and Professional Distinctions

2022

Catholic Biblical Association Grant

$15,000 

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