2023:
Abioseh Porter Best Essay Award of the African Literature Association for my article „Imagining Afrodescendance and the African Diaspora in Spain: Re-/De-Centering Belonging in Literature, Photography, and Film“.

2021:
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
Most important award for emerging scholars in Germany, awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Laudatio.
Film portrait.
Press release of U Bremen.
Interview with Julia Borst in the online magazine up2date.

2019:
Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose Academy Prize for the Humanities.
Award for outstanding emerging scholars in the humanities, awarded by the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz.
Video of the award ceremony
Press release of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz.

2016:
Berninghausen Prize for Excellence in Teaching 2016 of U Bremen
In the category “Outstandingly designed course in terms of research-based learning: at bachelor’s level” for the seminar “Le roman haïtien du XX^e et XXI^e siècle” & the Study Day on Haiti Study Day in winter term 2015/16. With Natascha Ueckmann.
Press article in the Weser Kurier.
Article in the student magazine Schweinwerfer.