Faculty Award

 Named an Honorary Faculty Member by the Golden Key International Honors Society.

Hilldale Award

Finalist, Herskovits Book Prize, African Studies Association, Women and Power in Postconflict Africa, 2016

Winner, Best book award in African politics, African Politics Conference Group, Women and Power in Postconflict Africa, 2016

Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award.

Sage Paper Award for the best paper applying or developing qualitative methods presented at the American Political Science Association. Awarded to “Informative Regress: Critical Antecedents and Historical Causation” (with Dan Slater).

Mellon  Foundation Dissertation-Year Fellowship.

Latin American Studies Association-Oxfam America Martin Diskin Award for best dissertation involving a combination of scholarship and activism (co-awarded).

Appointed by President Obama as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council

Vilas Associates Award, Humanities Division Class of 1955 Teaching Excellence Award. UW-Madison. University Honored Instructor.