President's Young Investigator's Award

University of Louisville Distinguished Teaching Professor Award

United Nations ASPIRE Multicultural Diversity Award

Named a “Faculty Favorite” by the Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning . Recognized as a Faculty Favorite each year from 2002- 2021.

Banff International Literary Translation Centre Residency Program Award

University of Louisville Trustees Award

National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Translation Project

University of Louisville Distinguished Service Award for Service to the Community

Winner Asymptote Close Approximations Translation Competition

NACADA National Outstanding Faculty Advising Award

Provost’s Award for Exemplary Advising

Region 3 NACADA Excellence in Advising Award for the State of Kentucky

Commissioned a Kentucky Colonel by Governor Bevin

Selected to Participate in the Annual Middlebury College Bread Loaf Translators’ Residency Program

University of Louisville Distinguished Professor Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity

Named a Student Champion by UofL President’s Office - 2021 & 2022

Named Professor Emerita by the Department of Classical and Modern Languages

The Rhonda Dahl Buchanan Community Engagement in Spanish Award created by the Department of Classical and Modern Languages