Invisible Light Awards
Invisible Light Foundation Awards
TBA
2025 International Communication Association Innovation Award in Mass Communication Method
2024 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist in Current Events Award
2024 International Studies Association Book Runner-up in International Communication Award
2023 National Communication Association Book of the Year Award in Ethics
2023 International Communication Association Activism, Communication and Social Justice Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention Award
2022 National Communication Association Applied Communication Sue DeWine Distinguished Scholarly Book Award
2021 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication International Communication Division Third Place Teaching Award for “Teaching Empathy and World System Categories as Research Methodologies for Critical International Communication Research.”
2016 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication International Communication Division Second Place Teaching Award for “Responding to a Diverse and Global World: Ethics of International Reporting” Teaching Module
2011 National Communication Association International and Intercultural Communication Division Distinguished Scholarship Award for the Dissertation.
2011 Brandeis University Schusterman Center Summer Institute for Israel Studies Faculty Fellow.
2011 International Communication Association Global Communication and Social Change Top Dissertation Award.
2010 Central New York Peace Studies Consortium Peace Studies Dissertation of the Year Award (one award presented across all divisions).
2008 Middle East Studies Association Top Student Paper Award (one award presented across all divisions).
2005 African and African-American Studies Research Project Outstanding Graduate Research in African Studies Award, UCSD.
2003 International Communication Association International Communication Top Student Paper Award.
1997-1998 John Gardner Fellow for Public Service, Stanford University and UC Berkeley