- USC Teaching Honour Roll, Award of Excellence 2015-2016, For Excellence in Teaching History
- 2015 Tom Watson Brown Book Award, Society of Civil War Historians and Watson-Brown Foundation, Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014).
- 2015 Wiley-Silver Prize, The Center for Civil War Research, University of Mississippi, Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014).
- Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2015, Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science.
- Grant recipient, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, 2015-2017.
- The Cassidy – Reid Lectureship, The University of Guelph, 2015
- Grant Recipient, SSRHC Situating Science: Science in Human Contexts, Research Grant, 2014
- The Command General’s Lectureship, The Army Medical Department and School, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio-Texas, 2013
- Grant Recipient, Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science, 2011-12 (promoting scholarly and public understanding of the history of science, technology and medicine).
- The Reynolds Distinguished Lectureship, History of the Health Sciences, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2011
- Reynolds Associate Research Fellowship, History of the Health Sciences, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2010
- H.N. Segall Award, 2009
- E.M. Wightman Thesis Award, 2004