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 In the Margins Honorary Title

The Torture Letters

Robert Textor Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, Won

New Directions Prize, General Anthropology Division, American Anthropological Association, Won

Setha Lowe Community Engagement Award,  American Anthropological Association, Won

 Society for Cultural Anthropology: Gregory Bateson Prize, Runner-up

Society for Humanistic Anthropology: Victor Turner Book Prize Competition, Second Prize

 Society of Midland Authors, Honorable Mention

Renegade Dreams

 Society for the Study of Social Problems: C. Wright Mills Award, Won

 J.I. Staley Award, School for Advanced Research, Won

Society for Cultural Anthropology: Gregory Bateson Prize, Runner-up

 American Ethnological Society: Sharon Stephens First Book Prize, Honorable Mention

Society for Humanistic Anthropology: Victor Turner Book Prize Competition, Third Prize

Other Honors and Awards

2023    American Academy of Arts and Sciences-Elected Member

2021-2022       John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

2021-2022       Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Fellowship, Stanford University

2018-2019      Wenner Gren Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Grant

2017-2019       National Science Foundation, Senior Cultural Anthropology Grant 

2015-2017       John L. Loeb Chair, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2015-2016       Clark Award, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2015-2016       Andrew Carnegie Fellows, Carnegie Corporation of New York

2015-2016       Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Visiting Fellow  Cambridge, MA         

2012–2013      Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ                              

2010–2011      Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Post-Doctoral fellowship, University of Michigan                                     

2009–2010      Erskine Peters Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of Notre Dame    

2007–2008      National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant in Cultural Anthropology 

2005–2007      National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award                  

2004–2005      Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation   

2004–2009      University of Chicago, Trustees Fellowship