She was awarded a CSWS Graduate Student Research Grant in 2002 for research on “Women, Work and Femininity: Representation of Female Wage-Earners in U.S. Women’s Magazines, 1918-1939” as a graduate student in the UO School of Journalism and Communication. Her work has been published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, American Journalism, and Women’s Studies—An Interdisciplinary Journal.