Mellon-LASA Seminar Award, “On Protest: Latin America in Comparative and Transnational Perspective,” with Barbara Cruikshank and Charles R. Hale, 2014.

Fulbright Scholar Award, Brazil, February-May 2014.

“Interrogating the Civil Society Agenda: Social Movements, Civic Participation, and Democratic Innovation,” Ford Foundation, project director and co-principal investigator and 2007 Research Leadership in Action Grant, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, UMass-Amherst.