Brigitte is the recipient of numerous awards and
fellowships, including a FLAS (Foreign Language and Areas Studies) Fellowship (1999), the
Distinguished Master Thesis Award of the Midwest Association of
Graduate Schools (2000), a Fulbright - Hays DDRA Fellowship (2001 - 02), a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institute with joint - residency at the National Museum of African Art and the National Museum of Natural History (2010), a West African Research Association Fellowship (2011), and a Sainsbury Research Center Visiting Fellowship at the University of East Anglia (2011).