Elected, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society,  1998.

Elected, Board of Directors, Special Interest Group for Telelearning; Coordinator,  
Online Learning Awards (ISTE), 1997-1999.

Fellowship recipient, University Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin,   1996-98.

Winner, Special Interest Group for Telecommunications' (SIG/Tel) Online Learning Awards:  
The Media Matter, (1996); Utopian Visions (1995).

Honorable Mention, SIG/Tel Online Learning Awards: Nadine Gordimer Internet Project (1996).

Recipient, Innovative Educational Practices Award,
The South African Elections '94 Internet Project", International Schools Services (ISS), 1995. 

Grant recipient, NEH Summer Seminars for College Professors, 
Rabelais and the  Renaissance Sense of the Comic,  Vanderbilt Univ ersity, 1991.

Grant recipient,  NEH Summer Seminars for School Teachers, 
American and  British Children's Classics,  Princeton University, 1990.

 Fellowship recipient,  John M. Kirk Fellowship for Medieval Studies, 
Bread  Loaf School of English, Oxford, 1989.

Fellowship recipient , Morehead Fellowship: merit-based, post-graduate study  of Sinai withdrawal, 
Israel and Egypt, 1982.

Scholarship recipient, John Motley Morehead Scholarship, University of North  Carolina,  1978-82.