Teaching Awards
2002 Rowman and Littlefield Award for Innovative Teaching in Political Science. The only national award for teaching in the discipline, given annually at the national conference.

Francis Diebold Award, 1998. A campus-wide award at Kalamazoo College.

Honors
One quarter merit leave, winter 2000. To conduct research at the Reagan and Nixon libraries in California, as well as the Nixon Archives in Maryland.

Provost’s commendation for teaching, given to the top 5% of faculty at Kalamazoo College in any given term. 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000.

Passed with distinction, oral comprehensive exam in American Government, Oct. 1994.

Passed with distinction, written comprehensive exam in American Government, Sept. 1994.

Passed Fluency in Methodology Exam, December, 1993.

Pro-Seminar Fellowship in Spring 1996, to teach a seminar, Race and Modern American Politics, to upper-level undergraduates.

Scholarship for study at Linacre College, Oxford, pursuing graduate research at the Nissan Institute and St. Anne's College.

Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honors society, with graduate GPA of 3.94.

National Merit Scholar, 1986-1990, Brown University