Honours, Awards, Grants

Major Honours and Awards

  • University of Waterloo Arts Award for Excellence in Research, 2023
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, elected 2022
  • Cooperative Education and Experiential Learning Employer Impact Award, Research category, as Director of the Rhetoricon Database project, 2021
  • Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision, University of Waterloo, 2019
  • Outstanding Performance Awards, University of Waterloo, 2006, 2019, 2023
  • Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of Alberta, 1990-92

Graduate Fellowships and Scholarships 

  • SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1987-88
  • Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1985-87
  • Rensselaer Scholar Fellowship, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1985-86
  • Province of Alberta Scholarships, University of Alberta, 1982-83, 1983-84
  • Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Pre-doctoral Scholarship, Dalhousie University, 1980-81

Grants (as Principal Investigator)

  • NSERC Discovery Horizon, 2024-2029
  • SSHRC Insight Grants, 2015-2018, 2018-2021, 2022-2027
  • Sam Pasupalak Computational Rhetoric Grant, 2022-23 
  • SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, 2020-23
  • Network on Aging Research Catalyst Grant, 2018-21
  • SSHRC Connection Grant, 2016
  • SSHRC Standard Research Grants, 2000-2003, 2010-2013

Prizes, Minor Awards, Small Grants

  • NSERC USRA grants, 2023, 2024 (x2)
  • Robert Harding & Lois Claxton Humanities and Social Sciences Grant, 2024
  • Games Institute Seed Grant, 2022
  • MITACS Grant, 2011
  • University of Waterloo 4A Scholar Awards, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010
  • LIF Grant, 2005-2006
  • Morgan Kaufmann Publication Grant, 2001-2002
  • UW-SSHRC Grants, 1993, 1998, 2001
  • New York Chapter STC Publications and Art Competition Award of Merit, 1993
  • Readers' Digest Grants for Publication, 1987, 1988
  • The Jay Gould Award for Excellence in Technical Writing, 1988
  • Beer Trust grant for dissertation research, 1987
  • McKinney Writing Prizes, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1986, 1987
  • The Roberta McCulloch Scholarship, Queen's University, 1979-80
  • Letter (Judo), University of Lethbridge, 1978
  • Silver Medal, University of Lethbridge, All-Alberta Judo Championships, 1977
  • The University of Lethbridge Arts and Sciences Scholarship, 1978-79