Sterling Award for Research, Teaching and Service Excellence, 2009; Loftsgordon Award for
   Teaching Excellence, 2007; advisor of the year, 2005. Campus-wide awards,
   Occidental College

Project Pericles Grant for Civic Engagement, 2007-2008

Carnegie Foundation/Campus Compact Fellowship for Political Engagement, 2007, declined

National Humanities Center, Rockefeller Humanities Fellow, 2003-2004

Graves Award for teaching and scholarship, American Council for Learned Societies, 2001

W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Kellogg National Leadership Program, Fellow, 1997-2000

Mellon Technology Development Grant, 1998

National Research Council, Ford Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1996-1997

Harvard DuBois Center for African American Studies Fellow, 1996-1997, declined

PEW Charitable Trust Grant, 1995-1996. "Critical Race Theory and Practice: From the
   First Amendment to Affirmative Action," to organize year-long speakers series

Haynes Foundation Fellowship, Summer 1995, "Black Academic Achievement:
   High School/Higher Education Collaborations"

DuBois-Rodney-Mandela Fellow, University of Michigan, 1993-1994
   Post-doctoral Research and Teaching Fellow

Occidental College, Dissertation Research and Teaching Fellow, 1991-1992

Ann Plato Fellow, Dissertation and Teaching Fellow, Trinity College, 1990-91

Copeland Fellow in Residence, Amherst College, Spring 1990

Mellon Foundation Graduate School Fellow, 1986-1992

Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College, 1986