2008
Honorable Mention in the 50th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards as Best Entertainment Review/Criticism/Column for
"Florida's Forgotten Rebels: Rediscovering the Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History" in Reason
from the Los Angeles Press Club
2007
Notable
Novel of 2006 for The Magic Ring by Baron de la Motte Fouqué (edited
by AHS)
from The Year's
Best Fantasy and Horror 2007 edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin J. Grant
2006
The Scholarly Guest of Honor for Mythcon XXXVII (Keynote Address: “Native America and Fantasy: Challenges for
Scholars and Readers”) for The Mythopoeic Society
2006
The 2006 Imperishable Flame Award for Accomplishment
in Tolkien/Inklings Scholarship
from Heren Istarion, The Northeast
Tolkien Society (inaugural recipient of annual award)
2004
Finalist
for The ORC Award for “Best Tolkien-Based Lecture or Paper Presented at an Academic Function” for “Harry
Potter is a Hobbit: How J.R.R. Tolkien Put the Adult in Children’s Literature”
from ORC: The One Ring Celebration
1995
Best
Graduate Student Paper of 1995 Award for “Essex and the People: Chivalry, Patriotism, and the Image of the Rebel Earl”
from
The Carolinas Symposium on British Studies
