First Recipient of the Lawrence Stanley Chair of Medieval History, October, 1998.

Lilly Foundation Summer Research Grants, The College of Wooster, 1990, 1991.

Visiting Scholar, New York University Council for the Humanities -

Mellon Foundation Seminar: "Love and Power in the Middle Ages," New York University, 1984-85.

Indiana University Department of History, Dissertation Grant, 1982.

Indiana University Medieval Studies Institute, Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1981.

Indiana University Department of History, Susan O'Kell Award for Outstanding Teaching, 1980.