Honors & Awards

Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers, New York Film Critics Circle, Special Award, 2018
Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers, Women Film Critics Circle, “Best Kept Secret Award,” 2018
Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers, Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Awards, Best Rediscovery of a Forgotten Film, 2019

Lois Weber in Early Hollywood, Richard Wall Special Jury Prize, Theatre Library Association
Lois Weber in Early Hollywood, Best Film Books of 2015, The Huffington Post
Pavel Machotka Chair in Creative Studies, Porter College, UC Santa Cruz, 2014-17
Macgeorge Visiting Fellow, University of Melbourne, 2013
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2012-13
Film Scholars Grant, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 2003
Visiting Scholar, Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr College, 2003
Scholar-in-Residence, Hildegard Festival of Women’s Art, Cal State University-Stanislaus, 2003
University of California President's Faculty Research Fellowship in the Humanities, 2001
Visiting Scholar, University of Colorado at Boulder (Film Studies and Women’s Studies), 2001

Movie-Struck Girls Named to Choice Magazine's List of Outstanding Academic Titles, 2000
Movie-Struck Girls Named Finalist for Theater Library Association Book Award, 2000

Scholar-in-Residence, Queen’s University (Film Studies and Women’s Studies), 2000

Excellence in Teaching Award, UC-Santa Cruz, 1998
Katherine Singer Kovacs Essay Prize, Society for Cinema Studies, Honorable Mention, 1998
Porter College Faculty Advisor of the Year, 1997
Screen Magazine's Award for Excellence, 1995
Society for Cinema Studies Dissertation Prize, First Runner-Up, 1995
Ph.D. Awarded with Distinction, 1994
Jay Leyda Memorial Dissertation Prize, New York University, 1994
Doug Tomlinson Service Award, New York University, 1994
Society for Cinema Studies Scholarly Writing Award, Third Prize, 1992
Norman Jewison Fellowship in Film Studies, University of Toronto, 1985

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