National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network on Institutional Grammar (Grant No. 1917908)

Feinberg Innovation Space, University of Massachusetts, $5,000

Faculty Research Grant, University of Massachusetts, $12,683, 2018-2019

Institute for Social Science Research, University of Massachusetts SEED grant, $5,000, 2017-18

Graustein Memorial Fund $15,000 grant Connecticut Pre-K Program, 2016-17

Five College/Mellon Foundation Public Policy Initiative $194,667 grant for Bridging Liberal Arts and Professional Education, 2012-2016

2011 Virginia A. Hodgkinson Book Prize awarded for Universal Preschool: Policy Change, Stability, and the Pew Charitable Trusts (SUNY Press) by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action and The Independent Sector.

Team-based Learning Fellowship, Center for Teaching, University of Massachusetts, 2011-2012

Proposal Preparation Award, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Massachusetts, 2011-2012

General Education Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, 2009-2010

Ian Axford Fellowship in Public Policy, New Zealand, 2007-2008

Zero to Three, Leaders for the 21st Century Fellowship, 2007-2009

Center for Research on Families Faculty Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, 2006-2007

Research Grant, University of Massachusetts, Office of Research Affairs, 2006

Research Grant, University of Massachusetts, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2004

Service Learning Faculty Research Fellowship, Provost’s Committee on Service Learning, University of Massachusetts, 2003-04

Service Learning Faculty Fellowship, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Massachusetts, 2000-01

Service Learning Faculty Fellowship, Provost's Committee on Service Learning, University of Massachusetts, 1999-00