Joyce A. Bylander Award for Excellence in Diversity Education (student award), Dickinson College, 2005

1st Place in the Online Information category, Asymetrix Corporation, awarded for Cultural Diversity Training content for Web-based training, in cooperation with KAZZ Communications, Carbondale, PA, 1997.

Ione Dugger Vargus Multicultural Award, 1993. Presented by the Multicultural Research and Training Institute, Temple University School of Social Administration, "for outstanding contributions to the valuing of diversity as a source of strength for individuals, families and social groups and as a catalyst for community enrichment, empowerment and positive social change" [first recipient].

Judge's Award, Sinking Creek Film and Video Festival, Vanderbilt University, 1991 for A Working Life [Portrait of a rural Pennsylvania blacksmith]

"High Budget Documentary" Award, Broadcast Education Association, 1991 for A Working Life

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (U.S. Department of Education): Arabic, 1980 1982.

Merle Saunders Schaff Memorial Prize in Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1981. Awarded for paper, "The Attempted Seduction of Joseph in Muslim and Jewish Tradition: A Folkloristic Perspective."

University Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1978

Student Research Grant, Wesleyan University, 1975