| October 2011 – September 2012 | Research Fellowship from the State of Bavaria for post-doctoral project |
| October 2010 | DAAD Grant, to present a paper at the American Studies Association’s Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas |
| October 2009 – March 2011 | Mentoring Program for Young High Potential Scholars, University of Regensburg |
| September 2008 | Grant of the Verein der Freunde der Universität Regensburg to travel to and present a paper at the American Studies Association’s Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| August 2008 | Luce Foundation Travel Grant, to attend the American Studies Association’s Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| June 2008 | Travel Grant of the women's representative, School of Language and Literature, University of Regensburg, to attend the American Studies Association's Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| May 2008 | DFG Grant, to present a paper at the European Association for American Studies Conference, Oslo, Norway |
| May 2006 | First Book Award of the Bayerische Amerika-Akademie for the Doctoral Dissertation |
| December 2005 | Dr. Katharina Sailer Dissertation Award, University of Regensburg |
| July 2005 | Publication grant of the women’s representative, School of Language and Literature, University of Regensburg |
| September 2003 | Grant of the Verein der Freunde der Universität Regensburg to visit and conduct research at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
| August 2003 | Postgraduate grant of the Bayerische Amerika Akademie to conduct research at UCLA, UC Berkeley, CSU Sacramento, and in San Jose, Oakland, and Washington, D.C. (National Archives, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution) |
| June 2003 | Fulbright Scholar, American Studies Summer Institute "Visual Culture and History in America", Amherst, MA |
| August 2000 – April 2001 | Graduate student scholarship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| April – September 2000 | Research grant for the doctoral thesis (State of Rhineland Palatinate) |
| January 1999 | Research grant for the master’s thesis at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin (Free University Berlin; USIA) |
| August 1994 – May 1995 | DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) American Studies Program Scholarship; University of California, Davis, CA |