[4][5] Following her publication, Taylor received the 2007 College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching[6] and was granted a 2008 Fellowship with the American Council of Learned Societies.

[7] Her fellowship focused on her project An Army of Fugitives: A History of the Men, Women, and Children Who Fled Slavery During the United States Civil War.

[8] Before leaving Albany for a similar position at the University of Kentucky, Taylor was appointed to the Board of Advisors of The Society of Civil War Historians.

[9] In 2012, Taylor left Albany for a tenured associate professor position at the University of Kentucky's Department of History.

[11] Two years later, she was promoted to interim chair of UK's Department of History[12] and published her book Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps.