Awards

Distinguished Artist Award, St. Botolph Club Foundation, 2025

Distinguished Professor of History, 2020

Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship, 2014-15

UMass Amherst Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research, 2011

College of Humanities and Fine Arts Distinguished Teaching Award, 2006

Chancellor’s Distinguished Academic Service Award, 2003

Recognitions for Research and Writing

National Council on Public History award for excellence in consulting Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service with co-authors Anne Whisnant, Gary Nash & David Thelen, for the Organization of American Historians, 2012.

Finalist, Cundill Prize in History (McGill University) Betsy Ross and the Making of America (Henry Holt, 2010).

Washington Post “Best of 2010” list Betsy Ross and the Making of America (Henry Holt, 2010).

Millia Davenport Prize, Costume Society of America, The Needle’s Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution, (UMass Press, 2006).

Awarded the Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Colonial History. ‘My Part Alone:’ The World of Rebecca Dickinson,” New England Quarterly (September, 1998)