has been awarded The Allan Sharlin Memorial Award of the Social Science History Association for his book Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA. The Sharlin Award is presented annually for an outstanding book in social science history published in the previous year (2010).

 received the Award for Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Public Policy and Managment from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) at the APPAM Annual Membership Meeting and Awards Breakfast on Nov. 4, 2011 in Washington, D.C.

received the 2011 State University of New York, Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

has been named a scholar of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's Institutions, Organizations and Growth Group
and an Early Career Scholar of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia.
 

 is named a first runner-up for the 2011 National Tax Association 2011 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.

 and Michael Tomz were awarded the Best Paper Award  by the Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association for their article “Candidate Repositioning”.  The Best Paper Award is presented to authors of the best paper presented at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting featuring experimental analyses.

was a awarded a College of Arts and Sciences Trustees Teaching at Indiana University.

was awarded the  Giovanni Sartori Book Award by the Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section of the American Political Science Association for her book Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa: Risk and Reciprocity in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire (Cambridge University Press, 2010). The Giovanni Sartori Book Award is granted to a single-authored or multi-authored book, or to an edited volume published in the calendar

received the Don K. Price Award from the Science, Technology & Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association for her book Science in Environmental Policy (MIT Press, 2009). The Don K. Price Award is given for the best book in science and technology politics published in the past 3 years.

received the Distinguished Contribution to Research Article Award from the American Sociological Association's Latino/a Sociology Section for her article "Immigrant Bureaucratic Incorporation: The Dual Roles of Professional Missions and Government Policies" (American Sociological Review October 2009 74: