Awards

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Summer and Creative Activities Research Fund Award, University of Kentucky Libraries, March 14, 2023.

University of Kentucky Innovator, Office of Technology Commercialization, University of Kentucky, September 22, 2022. 

Bluegrass Trust for Historic Preservation, Public Service Award, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, July 2021.

Fulbright Scholars Research Grant, Library Science. Collaborated with the National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia, to research the possibilities of automatic speech recognition and artificial intelligence in enhancing oral history and archival workflows, January–June 2019.

Associated Press (Kentucky), Broadcasters Award, Sports Reporting, Alan Lytle and Doug Boyd, Saving Stories: A Tribute to the Ultimate Sixth Man (Frank Ramsey), April 12, 2019.

Society of American Archivists, 2018 Archival Innovator Award, August 2018.

University of Kentucky Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies, Campus Writing Award, April 18, 2017.

American Historical Association, 2016 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History Goin’ North: Stories of the First Great Migration to Philadelphia, October 2016.

Oral History Association, 2015 Award for Oral History in a Non-Print Format, Goin’ North: Stories of the First Great Migration to Philadelphia, July 2015.

University of Kentucky Libraries, 2015 Paul A. Willis Award for Outstanding Faculty, May 2015.

Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Appalachian Sound Archives Research Fellowship, April–June 2015.

Associated Press (Kentucky), Broadcasters Award, Best Long Public Affairs [Second Place]

Saving Stories: 1964 Civil Rights March on Frankfort, April 24, 2015. 

Bluegrass Trust for Historic Preservation, Clay Lancaster Heritage Education Award, Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community, June 2012.

Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky History Award, Class C Educational Program Award

Quest for the Perfect Bourbon: Voices of Buffalo Trace Distillery Documentary, November 5, 2011. Kentucky Travel Industry Association Awards, First Place, Video Presentation, Quest for the Perfect Bourbon: Voices of Buffalo Trace Distillery Documentary, October 2011.

Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky History Award, Class C Educational Program Award, From Combat to Kentucky Oral History Project, November 5, 2010.

Associated Press (Kentucky) Broadcasters Award, Class 1 Radio–Best Sports Feature, WUKY and the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, “The Shot,” April 2010.

CASE Kentucky, Grand Prize Recipient–Audio Visual Category, WUKY and the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, radio collaboration, December 2009.

Library Leadership & Management Association (LLAMA), Best of Show Marketing Awards, Winner, Fundraising Materials Category, Equine Oral History Project fundraising web video, July 13, 2009.

Associated Press (Kentucky) Broadcasters Award, Class 1 Radio–Best Sports Feature, WUKY and the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, “Bill Keightley Oral History Project,” April 2009.