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
