Undergraduate: Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Alpha Theta (history honorary society);
B.A. magna cum laude ; selected the most outstanding graduating senior in history at the University of Washington.
Special Career Fellowship-Ford Foundation (1968-73)
Berkeley Chancellor's Patent Fund Grant (1974)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Summer Institute on the “New History,” City University of New York (1976)
NEH-Rockefeller Foundation Grant to attend the Newberry Library (Chicago)
Effects of saltmarsh change on coastal ecology
Newberry Library (Chicago) Fellowship in Residence (1979)
Yale Visiting Faculty Fellowship-Mellon Foundation (1981-82)
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on “Art and Society in Eighteenth Century England,” Yale Center for British Art (1985)
Distinguished Teaching Award, University of New Haven (1990: one award per year in faculty of 160)
University of New Haven research and/or travel awards (1980, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1997, 1998, 1999)