• 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