Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment of the Humanities, Summer 1991.

Max Orovitz Fellowship in the Social Sciences, University of Miami, Summer 1986.

Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment of the Humanities, Summer 1984.

Max Orovitz Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities, University of Miami, Summer 1979.

Newberry Library Fellowship for College Teaching of State and Community History (National Endowment for the Humanities), Newberry Library, Chicago, May-August, 1978.