2008                Hayward Award: Excellence in Education,
                          Academic Senate, CCC (CA State)
2005                Regina Stanback-Stroud Diversity Award,
                          Academic Senate, CCC (CA State)
2002                Publication Excellence, Mission College
2001                NISOD Teaching Excellence Award (National)
2000                Faculty of the Year, Mission College
1995                Distinction, Doctoral Candidate Qualifying Examinations,
                         University of California, Berkeley
1994                Ethnic Studies Departmental Fellowship,
                         University of California, Berkeley
1991                Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
                         (Modern Irish Language)
1990                Dorothy Rosenberg Memorial Prize in Lyric Poetry,
                         University of California, Berkeley
1989                University of California, Berkeley Honor Society
1989                Hill Honorary Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley
1988                Academic Honors, University of California, Berkeley
1988                Election to Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Berkeley
1987                Dean's List, University of California, Berkeley
1986                Dean's List, George Washington University