AWARDS AND HONORS

2017

Lifetime Achievement Award, International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. Ceremony April 2017, New York City.

Rachel Carson Senter Alumni Fellowship, University of Munich.

2016

Term Professorship (for “distinguished records of research and scholarship”), University of Florida, three years.

2015

Graduate Mentor Award Nominee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida

2014

Humanities Enhancement Research Grant, University of Florida

2013

Selected a “First Scholar” for the special summer session at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

2011

Selected as a Carson Fellow, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

2010 – 2012

Awarded University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship ($18,000 research stipend)

2011

Selected National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar core faculty member, for the week long “Reclaiming an Old Idea: The Humanities and Sustainability,” hosted by Arizona State University

2010

Dark Green Religion selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice.

2006

The American Library Association’s Outstanding Reference Source award, for the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature

2005

Choice’s Outstanding Academic Title of 2005 for the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature

2004

Rosebush Professorship, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, highest faculty award for research, teaching, and service.

2001

First Prize, Curriculum Innovation Award, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, for Biodiversity and Bioregionalism course.

1997 – 2001

Oshkosh Foundation Endowed Professorship, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

1994 – 1995

Research Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin Madison

1992

University of Wisconsin System, Regents Teaching Merit Award