Awards

  • 2017 University of Minnesota Council of Graduate Students (COGS) Campus-Wide Outstanding Faculty Award (given to a faculty member “who graduate students feel go above and beyond expectations to ensure the success of graduate students, both as students and as the next generation of scholars and researchers”).

  • 2016 University of Minnesota campus-wide award for outstanding contributions to graduate education (named a Distinguished University Teaching Professor and inducted into the UMN Academy of Distinguished Teachers).

  • 2015 Herbert Simon Award, for Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race. The Herbert Simon Award is given by the American Political Science Association’s Section on Public Administration for significant contributions to public administration scholarship.

  • 2012 Michael Harrington Book Award, for Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race. The Harrington Book Award is given by the American Political Science Association’s Caucus for a New Political Science. It is awarded to the book published in the past year that best demonstrates how outstanding scholarship can be put in the service of struggle for a better, more just, world.

  • 2012 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, for Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race. The Cox Book Award is given by the American Sociological Association’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities and is awarded to the book published in the past two years that best advances the sociological study of race and ethnicity and makes “a distinguished and significant contribution to the eradication of racism.”

  • 2012 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award, for for Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race. The CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award is given by the American Library Association to “the best in scholarly titles reviewed by Choice [in the preceding year] and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community.”

  • 2012 Beryl Radin Award for “The Organization of Discipline: From Performance Management to Perversity and Punishment” with Richard C. Fording and Sanford F. Schram. 2011. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 21(1): 203-32. The Radin Award is given by the Public Management Research Association and is awarded for the best article published in JPART in the past year.

  • 2010 University of Minnesota Council of Graduate Students (COGS) Campus-Wide Outstanding Faculty Award (given to a faculty member “who graduate students feel go above and beyond expectations to ensure the success of graduate students, both as students and as the next generation of scholars and researchers”).

  • 2008 Award for the Best Paper on Public Policy presented at the 2007 annual conference of the American Political Science Association (APSA), “Deciding to Discipline: A Multi-Method Study of Race, Choice, and Punishment at the Frontlines of Welfare Reform,” awarded by the APSA’s Public Policy Section.

  • 2006 Award for the Best Paper on Public Policy presented at the 2005 annual conference of the American Political Science Association (APSA), “The Color of Devolution: The Politics of Local Punishment in the New World of Welfare,” awarded by the APSA’s Public Policy Section.

  • ·American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha Award for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science, 2002.

  • Campus-Wide Outstanding Teacher Award, American University, 2002.

  • School of Public Affairs Outstanding Teacher Award, American University, 2002.

  • Elmer Plischke Award for Outstanding Research in Political Science, American University, 2002.

  • American University School of Public Affairs Outstanding Teacher Award, 1998.

  • American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha Award for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science, 1998.

  • American University School of Public Affairs Outstanding Teacher Award, 1997.