Scholarly Awards and Honors

  • 2019 Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association (co-winner), for Trade Battles: Activism and the Politicization of International Trade Policy

  • 2013 Best Book Award Honorable Mention from the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association, for NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism

  • 2013 Finalist, Gordon Hirabyashi Human Rights Book Award, American Sociological Association for NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism

  • 2012 Best Book Award Honorable Mention from the Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association, for NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism

  • 2006 “Distinguished Scholarly Article” Award, Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association, for “Labor Transnationalism and Global Governance”

  • 2005 “Best Article” Award, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, for “Abortion, Race, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century America”

  • 2005 “Best Article” Award, Race, Gender and Class Section of the American Sociological Association, for “Abortion, Race, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century America"


Teaching Awards and Honors

  • 2014 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award Nominee (Harvard Graduate Student Council)

  • 2008 George Kahrl Award for Excellence in Teaching (Harvard)  

  • 2007 Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize Nominee (Harvard)

  • 2004 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (UC Berkeley)