Faculty Award

WARF Named Professorship – UW Madison Graduate School

First Runner-up, Best Book on African Politics Award, African Politics Conference Group, for Museveni’s Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime (Lynne Rienner, 2010).

Honored Instructor Award, UW-Madison Housing

Leon Epstein Faculty Fellow, UW-Madison College of Letters and Science

2011 Ed A. Hewett Book Prize, Honorable Mention, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, awarded for the outstanding publication on the political economy of the centrally planned economies of the former Soviet Union …

United States Institute for Peace Grant, 2010 Annual Competition

Winnick Fellow, Committee on Conscience, U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum

Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the 2011 Southern Political Science Association annual meeting

Royal Economic Society Prize for the best unsolicited paper published in The Economic Journal in 2012, for “Counting Chickens When They Hatch: Timing and the Effects of Aid on Growth.”

Co-winner of the LASA/Oxfam America 2013 Martin Diskin Dissertation Award of the Latin American Studies Association for her dissertation “Markets, Movements, and Meanings: Subsistence Resources and Political Protest in Mexico and Bolivia.”