Faculty Award

2013 Best Dissertation Award from the International Society of Political Psychology for “Fighting for Status.”

Honored Instructor Award, University Housing, UW-Madison

Best in Class instructor by the College of Letters and Science, based on student nomination

Undergraduate Student Mentoring Award in the Division of Social Studies, Office of the Provost

Vilas Associate Award by the UW Graduate School

Co-author, Robert H. Durr 2013 Award for the best paper applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem in political science Midwest Political Science Association

Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Faculty Fellow, 2014-15, UW-Madison Institute for Research in the Humanities

Best in Class instructor by the College of Letters and Science, based on student nominations

 Faculty Development Seminar organizer, Spring 2014, Institute for Research in the Humanities, for the seminar “Machiavelli at 500”

Abram Bergson Prize, Association for Comparative Economic Studies, for the best article published in Comparative Economic Studies in the previous two years, for “Did Post-Communist Privatization Increase Mortality?”