AWARDS AND HONORS

2023 Senior Faculty Recognition for Excellence in Research, University at Albany 

2020    Gerda Henkel Foundation research scholarship, Special Programme "Security, Society, and the State"

2019    Rockefeller Foundation Writing Residency Fellow at the Bellagio Center, Italy

2019    Honorable Mention for the  Marysa Navarro Book Prize, New England Council of Latin American Studies for Surviving State Terror: Women's Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina (NYU Press, 2018)

2019    Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award by the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association for Surviving State Terror: Women's Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina (NYU Press, 2018)

2019    Faculty Research Award Program (FRAP B), University at Albany

2014-2016    Individual Development Award, Joint Labor-Management Committees, State University of New York

2013    Initiatives for Women Award, University at Albany

2013    Faculty Research Award Program (FRAP B), University at Albany

2011    Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women's Studies Association for Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (Rutgers University Press, 2010)

2011    Nominee, Claude F. Fischer Award for Excellence in Contexts, for photo essay "Situating Memory in Argentina" 

2011    Individual Development Award, Joint Labor-Management Committees, State University of New York

2010    Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Leave Program Award, Joint Labor  Management Committees, State University of New York

2010    Selected and offered funding to participate in the faculty workshop, “Civic Engagement in the Women's and Gender Studies Classroom: Power and Privilege at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Nation,” National Women’s Studies  Association with support of the Teagle Foundation. (Declined due to schedule conflict with Drescher Award)

2010    Special mention by Honors College as one of the “Professors Who Inspire Us,” University at Albany. http://www.albany.edu/honorscollege/Professors_Who_Inspire_Us.shtm

2008    Individual Development Award, United University Professions, Joint Labor  and Management Committees, University at Albany, SUNY

2007    Faculty Research Award (FRAP B), University at Albany, SUNY

2007    Elsa Chaney Award Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association, Section on Gender and Feminist Sudies. Paper:  " 'More than Reproductive Uteruses:’ Women and the Politics of Abortion in Argentina"

2005-2006    Fellowship award under the Junior Scholars in the Study of Democracy in Latin America Competition, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Ford Foundation

2005-2006    Research Interest Group (RIG) Development Grant, co-authored with fellow members from the Gender in Latin America Research Interest Group to fund the program “Gender and the Borders of Cultural Memory in Latin  America,” Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon

2004    CoDaC Graduate Summer Research Award, Center of Diversity and Community,University of Oregon

2003-2004    Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women’s Studies, Woodrow Wilson Foundation

2003-2004    Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon

2003-2004    Kenneth S. Ghent International Student Scholarship, Office of International  Programs, University of Oregon

2002-2003    International Trade and Development Graduate Fellowship, Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund, The Nippon  Foundation

2002-2003    Stephen L. Wasby Dissertation Research Grant, University of Oregon

2002    International Student Merit Award, University of Oregon

2001-2002    General University Scholarship, University of Oregon

2001-2002    Research Interest Group (RIG) Development Grant, co-authored with fellow members from the Social Sciences Feminist Network, Center for  the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon

2001    Travel Grant, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon

2000-2001   Research Interest Group (RIG) Development Grant, co-authored with co- founders of the Social Sciences Feminist Network, Center for the Study of  Women in Society, University of Oregon

2000-2001   General University Scholarship, University of Oregon

2000    Gary E. Smith Summer Grant, Graduate School, University of Oregon

2000    German Academic Exchange Service Scholarship (DAAD)

1999-2000   General University Scholarship, University of Oregon

1997-2000    Sociology Department Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Oregon

1997-1998     General University Scholarship, University of Oregon  

1996-1997     International Cultural Service Program (ICSP) Scholarship, University of Oregon

1995    Ranked among the top three Law School graduates at the graduation ceremony. University of Buenos Aires, Argentina