Below is a listing of the outstanding and well-deserved awards, grants, and honors our esteemed faculty members have received in 2018 and 2019.
Elected to serve as the chair of the Associate Deans section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) as chair-elect for 2019 and chair for 2020.
Strength in Diversity Grant awarded by Loyola's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee (DEIC) to fund the event/lecture "Janet Mary Riley: A Voice for Social Justice in Louisiana.”
Sage Junior Faculty Professional Development Teaching Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; The purpose of this award is, "to recognize and honor criminal justice and criminology faculty members for innovative teaching methods."
Selected as a Bellow Scholar, the Association of American Law Schools Clinical Association's highest award for clinical scholarship.
Scholar in Residence at the Brahmshaus Baden-Baden, Germany
Grant from Open Society Foundations for “Assessing the State of American Democracy” to look at the origins of the current American democratic crisis.
Loyola Senate Teaching Award
$50,000 Grant to JSRI from The Porticus Foundation to support the Catholic Teach-Ins on Mass Incarceration and our geographical outreach across the Gulf South; $5,000 grant to JSRI from The Keller Family for general support
Fulbright Scholarship to the Netherlands; Faculty Fellowship to Israel
Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for her research project in China during the 2019-2020 academic year. Working with the Institute of Legal History, China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, she will research ancient Chinese dynastic contract law issues, focusing on the Tang Dynasty.
Dux Academicus Award, the highest faculty honor given by Loyola University New Orleans
Chosen as a presenter at the CLE program sponsored by the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law at Oxford University, England
2019 James Beard Foundation Award Nomination for book, Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture
National Book Award, Best Short Collection, 2018 (San José, Costa Rica)
Fulbright-Nehru Academic & Professional Excellence Fellowship (Fulbright Scholar, India)
Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant for “A legal framework for resilient electricity infrastructure in Australia” (three years)
