Selected Honors, Fellowships, and Awards

• Fellow, EVC Academy, UCSC, 2018-19.
• Guest Researcher, Göteborgs Universitet, Department of Sociology and Work Science, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2018.
• Golden Apple Teaching Award, Division of Social Sciences, UCSC, 2016-17.
• Accessibility Leader Award, from the ALI Program, a student-run project working out of UCSC’s Disability Resource Center, 2016.
• Visiting Researcher, Center for the History of Emotions, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung (Max Planck Institute for Human Development), Berlin, June-July 2013.
• UC Santa Cruz Senate Committee on Teaching, Excellence in Teaching Award, 2012.
• Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Best Book Award (for Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS), American Sociological Association, Political Sociology Section, 2010.
• Ruth Benedict Book Prize (for Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS), American Anthropological Association, Association for Queer Anthropology, 2010.
• Finalist, Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies (for Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS), 2010.
• First Prize (to Feel Tank Chicago) (for “20 Reasons To Pay Attention to Emotion”), in “Looking for Democracy: How to Make It, How to Sustain It” Annual Film & Video Contest, sponsored by the Public Square, a project of the Illinois Humanities Council, 2009.
• E. Schattschneider Award (for Best Dissertation in American Politics), American Political Science Association, 2002.
• Harper-Schmidt Fellowship in the Social Sciences, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, University of Chicago, 2000 – 2004.