2013
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College
of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Kentucky
($1,500).
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2013
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Practice
and Outreach Award, Environment and Technology Section of the American
Sociological Association.
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2013
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Robert
Boguslaw Award for Technology and Humanism, Environment and Technology Section
of the American Sociological Association. Recognition received for article
titled, “Feminist Ethnography as Activism: Exposing the Environmental
Injustices of Neoliberalism through Photovoice.”
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2012
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Honorable Mention, Council of Graduate
Schools/ProQuest International Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Social
Sciences for dissertations completed between 2010-2012.
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2012
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Rural Sociological Society Early Career
Research Award ($1,000).
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2011
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Inaugural Rural Sociology Best
Scholarly Paper Award, Rural Sociological Society ($1,000). Received for the
best article published in the Society’s journal Rural Sociology in 2010: “Community Economic Identity: The Coal
Industry and Ideology Construction in West Virginia,” co-authored with
Richard York (Bell first author).
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2011
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Honorable Mention, Allan Schnaiberg
Outstanding Publication Award, Environment and Technology Section of the
American Sociological Association. Recognition received for “Community
Economic Identity: The Coal Industry and Ideology Construction in West
Virginia,” co-authored with Richard York (Bell first author).
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2009-10
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University of Oregon Doctoral Dissertation Research
Fellowship, University of Oregon Graduate School and the Office of the Vice
President for Research ($18,000).
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2009
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American Sociological Association’s Sydney S. Spivack Program in
Applied Social Research and Social Policy Community Action Research Initiative
Award ($2,800).
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2009
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Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship, Center for the
Study of Women and Society, University of Oregon ($12,000; declined due to
acceptance of UO Doctoral Fellowship).
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2009
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Student Publication Award, Department of Sociology, University of
Oregon ($500).
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2008-09
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Wasby-Johnson Dissertation Award, Department of Sociology, University
of Oregon ($7,500).
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2006
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Data
Collection and Presentation Award, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon
($500).
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2005
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Outstanding
Rural Health Research Project, West Virginia University Office of Rural
Health (Collaborative research project).
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2003-04
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National
Health Service Corps SEARCH Program Fellowship, West Virginia Rural Health Education
Partnerships, West Virginia University ($8,000).
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1996-00
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Washington and
Lee University Honor Scholarship (Full tuition for four years of study).
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1999
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Phi
Beta Kappa, Washington
and Lee University
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