Awards and Recognitions

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND RECOGNITIONS

• Faculty Exceptional Research Award – School of International Service, American University, 2024

• William Cromwell Award for Outstanding Teaching – School of International Service, American University, 2021-2022

• Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship – The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2018

• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship – Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, 2012-2015

• UC Dissertation-Year Fellowship – UC Berkeley, 2011

• Leo Lowenthal Dissertation Fellowship – UC Berkeley (Sociology), 2011 (Declined)

• Simpson Award – UC Berkeley (Institute of International Studies), 2011

• Fall Research Grant – UC Berkeley (Sociology), 2010

• Undergraduate Mentorship Recognition – UC Berkeley (Sociology), 2010

• Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Alternate – Ford Foundation, 2010

• Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship – UC Berkeley, 2008

• National Science Foundation Fellowship – National Science Foundation, 2005

• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship – United States Department of Education, 2005

• Graduate Opportunity Program Fellowship – UC Berkeley, 2004

• Fulbright to India, Finalist – Institute of International Education, 2002-2003

• Honors in Urban Studies – Columbia University, 2002

Publication awards

• American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, 2024

• John Ruggie ISA Annual Best Book Award – International Studies Association, 2024

• Lee Ann Fujii Book Award – International Studies Association, 2024

• Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award – American Sociological Association Marxist Sociology Section, 2023

• Book Award – Society for the Study of Social Problems Global Division, 2023 

• Best Book – International Studies Association, Global Development Studies, 2023

• Best Book Prize, Honorable Mention – African Studies Association, 2023

• Book Award, Honorable Mention – American Sociological Association Sociology of Development Section, 2023

• Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Honorable Mention – American Sociological Association Race, Gender, and Class Section, 2023 

• Distinguished Book Award, Honorable Mention – American Sociological Association Sex and Gender Section, 2023

• Book Prize, Honorable Mention – American Anthropological Association Society for the Anthropology of Work, 2023

• Best Scholarly Article Award – American Sociological Association Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, 2018

• Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award – American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, and Class, 2018

• Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award, Honorable Mention – American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2017 

• John Rieger Graduate Paper Award – International Visual Sociology Association, 2012