Assistant Professor in Art History, was awarded the 2015 American Academy of Religion Best First Book in the History of Religions and the 2015 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in Africana Studies. She also received the Franklin Pease G.Y. Memorial Prize for the best article to appear in Colonial Latin American Review between 2013 and 2014 and received an honorable mention for the 2015 Melville J. Herskovits Award from the African Studies Association.