Awards and Fellowships
Tom Watson Brown Book Prize, best book on the American Civil War published in 2010, Society of Civil War Historians, 2011.
John W. Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress, 2011-12.
Lincoln Prize Finalist and Honorable Mention, Gilder Lehrman Institute and Gettysburg College, 2011.
Francis B. Simkins Award, Southern Historical Association, 2011.
Honorary Research Fellow, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 2010-13.
Fletcher M. Green and Charles W. Ramsdell Award, Southern Historical Association, 2010.
United States Studies Centre Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney, 2009–10.
Center for Economic History Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 2008–9.
Columbia University Prize in American Economic History in Honor of Allan Nevins, Economic History Association, 2007.
Distinguished Dissertation Award co-winner, University of Missouri, 2007.
Minnesota Population Center Proposal Development Grant, University of Minnesota, 2006.
Nels Andrew Cleven Founder’s Paper Prize Award, Phi Alpha Theta, 2006.
Alfred D. Chandler Travel Grant, Business History Conference, 2005.
Frank F. and Louise I. Stephens History Fellowship, University of Missouri, 2004.
Allen Cook White, Jr. Fellowship Fund, University of Missouri, 2003.
Richard S. Brownlee Fund Award, State Historical Society of Missouri, 1997 and 2001.
Faculty Development Grant, William Woods University, 1996.