First Prize, Soul-making Keats Literary Competition’s Gail Wilson Kenna Creative Nonfiction Prize Category (2022)
“Return to Eden”

Ben F. Johnson Faculty Excellence Award, 2019

First Prize, Soul-making Keats Literary Competition’s Gail Wilson Kenna Creative Nonfiction Prize Category (2018)
“A Perfect Start”

First Prize, Judith Siegel Pearson Award (2014)
“What Not To Do When Your Roommate Is Murdered In Italy: Amanda Knox, Her ‘Strange’ Behavior, and the Italian Legal System”

Notables, The Best American Essays
(2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2018, 2020, 2022)
Six of Martha Grace Duncan’s memoirs and two law review articles have been selected as Notables in this anthology.

Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, 2012-2013

Black Law Students Professor of the Year Award, 2011-2012