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.”

President of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis for 2013

Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison

H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship Award

Named a Leon Epstein Faculty Fellow, 2013-2016, by Dean Gary Sandefur

Honored Instructor Award, UW-Madison Division of Housing