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ACADEMIC HONORS AND SCHOLARSHIPS: 

One of two scholars for National Humanities Center’s 2004 Eastern Region Professional Development Seminar, “The Making of African
          American Identity, 1865-1917,” (June 14-18, 2004), East Carolina University. See site http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us
          http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/pds/africanamer/africanamer.htm
Book, Canonization, Colonization, Decolonization, was listed at #41 in Indian Comparative Studies Top 100 Bestselling Books Books: Indian
          Comparative Studies, Presented by Orientalia and Amazon.com
          http://www.indology.net/store-mode-books-page_num-5-input_string-Indian+Comparative+Studies-locale-us.html
Department of English Nominee Finalist for East Carolina University Five-Year Research/Creative Activity Award, in process, 2003-04.
"From Around the Globe: Secular Authors and Biblical Perspectives." Submitted for Summer 2004 Research Award, East Carolina
          University.
"Voicing Critically Unknown Newly Published African American Writers from Eastern North Carolina." Grant Proposal to be submitted to
          NCHC December 2003.
Department of English Spring 2003 100% Reassigned Time for Research.
Subvention, Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies, East Carolina University, 2002, approved
          and funded, $3,162.00
Department of English 2000-01 Research Award. 
NEH Summer Seminar on the "Decolonization of the British Empire," July 10-August 18, 2000, at the University of Texas at Austin. 
Listed in the Sixth Edition of Whoís Who Among American Teachers, Fall 2000. 
Department of English 1999-2000 Service Award. 
"Indignities of War: An Oral and Analytical History of the African American Experience in Vietnam." Collaborative Project, NHC, 1998,
          $6,500.00, approved and funded, in progress 
Subvention, Decolonization of Colonial and Canonical Marginalization in Works by Writers of Color. East Carolina University, 1998, approved
          and funded, $2,709.00 
Travel Grant to London, ECU, Summer 1998, approved and funded, $300.00 
Travel Grant to UWI, Jamaica, ECU, Spring 1998, approved and funded, $400.00 
Travel Grant to UWI, Trinidad, ECU, Fall 1996, approved and funded, $400.00 
Teaching Associateship, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1992-1994 
Graduate Tuition Waiver Scholarship, Chicago State University, Spring 1990 
The Joyce Adler Literature Prize for the best graduating student in Literature, University of Guyana, Fall 1986 
The Lilian Dewar Award for the best student in the English Department in the penultimate year of the student's program, University of
          Guyana, Fall 1985 
Kappa Delta Pi, Spring 1992