• UO Thomas Hovet Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Fellowship Instructors                 2010 
  • EUSA Haas Fellowship                                                                                                                              2010  
  • Departmental Graduate School Research Award                                                                                  2009
  • UO Student-Parent Award                                                                                                                           2009
  • John L. and Naomi M. Luvaas Fellowship                                                                                  2007 - 2008
  • Departmental "Good Citizen Award"                                                                                                         2007 
  • Stephen L. Wasby Award                                                                                                                            2007 
  • Rozanne Junker Scholarship                                                                                                                     2006
  • UO Non-Traditional Student Award                                                                                                           2006 
  • UO Student-Parent Award                                                                                                                           2006 
  • Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Tuition Scholarship                                          2005 
  • Honorable mention "Wettbewerb zur Integration von Zuwanderern"                                                 2002 awarded by the German president Johannes Rau  
  • ERAMUS Scholarship, European Union                                                                                     1999 - 2000