• NSF Distinguished Lecture, Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, 2021
• National Academy of Social Insurance, Elected 2021
• Founders Prize, Best Paper in Social Science History 2018, with Trevon Logan and John Parman, 2019
• American Economic Association Pipeline Impactful Mentor Award (for mentoring graduate students), 2019
• American Society of Hispanic Economists Distinguished Service Award (for AEA Summer Program), 2019
• Sigma Xi (Scientific Honor Society) Distinguished Lecturer
• Michigan State University All-University Excellence in Diversity Award, 2021
• National Science Foundation, Research on the Green Books, Economics Program
• National Science Foundation, American Economic Association Summer Program, 2016 – 2021
• National Science Foundation, “The Idea Gap in Pink and Black,” Science of Science Policy Program, 2011-2017; to study educational outcomes and incentives for innovation, including venture-capital funding to account for disparities in innovative outcomes among women and minorities
• National Bureau of Economic Research and the Kauffman Foundation, Innovation Policy and the Economy Small Grant; Visiting Scholar, NBER, January to August 2009; to examine incentives for innovation, including to account for disparities in innovative outcomes among women and minorities
• Institute for Research on Innovation and Science, University of Michigan, “The Idea Gap in Pink and Black”, 2015
• National Poverty Center, University of Michigan, Visiting Scholars Program, “Consumer Finance, the Financial Crisis, and the New Poor,” May to August 2010; to examine the effects of the Great Recession on U.S. households using Michigan survey data
• National Bureau of Economic Research, “Nigerian Bank Reform and Poverty Alleviation,” NBER Africa Successes Project, 2009-2011
• Harvard Business School Alfred Chandler Grant, “Historical Origins of Financial Crises,” 2011-2012
• Michigan Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Grant, Co-PI with Center for Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurial Finance at Broad School of Business
• Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, Michigan State University, Research Grant, 2009-2010; for collection of data and research on Michigan house- holds during the Great Recession
• Vice Chancellor for Research, Michigan State University, Junior Faculty Research Grant
• African Studies Center, Michigan State University, Research and Travel Grants
• Center for International Studies and Programs, Michigan State University, Research and Travel Grants
• Center for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies, Michigan State University, Research and Travel Grants
• Center for Gender in the Global Context, Michigan State University, Curriculum Development Grant
• W.E.B. DuBois Society in the Field (Scholarship and Impact) Award, MSU, 2018

Prior to 2009

• Marshall Scholarship, Oxford University
• Economic History Association, Arthur M. Cole Grant
• National (Post-Doctoral) Fellowship, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
• National Science Foundation, Graduate Education
• Ford Foundation (West Africa), Banking for the Poor
• Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs (Post-Doctoral) Fellowship
• Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) Post-Doctoral Fellowship
• American Economic Association Summer Research and Training Opportunity
• American Economic Association/Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Graduate Summer Research Fellowship
• Social Science Research Council Workshop in Transition, Graduate Summer Re- search Fellowship
• Harry S. Truman Foundation Scholarship
• Harry S. Truman Foundation Public Service Award
• Charles E. Merrill Study Abroad Fellowship, Spelman College