Principal Investigator, "Unlocking the Airwaves: Revitalizing an Early Public Radio Collection," National Endowment for the Humanities Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant ($217,000), April 2018.

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Principal Investigator, "Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in LA 1945-80," Getty Foundation Exhibition Publication Support Grant ($65,000), part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980, January 2010.  To support the preservation of 10 films in conjunction with the Academy Film Archive and the development of a multi-media website publication.

 

Principal Investigator, "Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in LA 1945-80," Getty Foundation Research and Planning Grant ($117,000), part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980, April 2009. To support historical and archival research, oral histories, and planning towards a screening series/exhibition.

 

Recipient, Career Development Fellowship Grant, Association of American University Women (AAUW), 2007-08.

 

Recipient, Mary Pickford Scholarship, Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), 2007-08.

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Recipient, Graduate Division Fellowships, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006-07 and 2007-08.

 

Honorable Mention Recipient, UCLA Information Studies Department’s Diversity Paper Award for 2006-07 for paper entitled “Visualizing a Homeland: Documentation Strategies and Native American Cultural Heritage.”