Teaching Excellence and Institutional Recognition

Campus Teacher of the Year, San Jacinto College
2025–2026

Partnership Lake Houston Teacher of the Year Award
2025

San Jacinto College Nominee, Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award
2024–2025

Exceptional Annual Performance Rating, Department Chair, San Jacinto College
2023–2024; 2024–2025

Faculty Member of the Month, Indian River State College
March 2021

Scholarly and Literary Awards

PoliticoTech Book Award
2020
Revolutionary Change and Democratic Religion: Christianity, Vodou, Secularism

Honorable Mention, Pan African International Book Awards
2014
From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought

Honorable Mention, Pan African International Book Awards
2014
Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions

Civic and Governmental Honors

U.S. House of Representatives Congressional Commendation
Presented by Representative Dan Crenshaw (TX-02)
March 2025

Texas Senate Official Recognition
Presented by Senator Brandon Creighton (District 4) in partnership with Lake Houston
March 2025

Texas House of Representatives Certificate of Recognition
Presented by Representative Charles Cunningham (District 127)
March 2025

City of Humble Official Proclamation
Presented by Mayor Norman Funderburk
March 2025

Research Grants and International Distinctions

Recipient of Competitive Research and International Travel Grants
University of Florida; University of Central Lancashire (United Kingdom); San Jacinto College; Indian River State College; The University of Texas at Dallas