2015 McNair Outstanding Faculty Award 2013 Faculty Mentorship Excellence Award. Office of Minority Student Affairs 2013 Outstanding Faculty Member Award HCD Graduate Student Organization 2013 Praxis Award Honorary Mention, Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists For Comparative Ethnographic Study of Enumeration Methods and Coverage in Race/Ethnic Group: African Americans and Others in Chicago Site in the 2010 Census Non-Response Follow-Up Operation (Team of 11 Ethnographers sponsored by the U.S Census Bureau Center for Survey Measurement) 2009-2010 Visiting Scholar, Michigan State University 2003- Associate, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Illinois 2001-2002 College of ACES Faculty Award for Excellence in Research 1999-2002 University Scholar, University of Illinois 1992-1993 Visiting Scholar Award, Russell Sage Foundation