Recent Awards and Honors
2023 Elected Fellow. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
2022-24 President-Elect of the Association of Latino and Latina Anthropologists.
2021 Bronislaw Malinowski Award, 2021, presented by the Society for Applied Anthropology.
12/2019 The Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists (ALLA) award: ALLA Distinguished Career Award for 2019.
2018 Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
2009
Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America. Awarded by the Society for the Anthropology of North America, a section of the American Anthropological Association.
2009
Book Award for The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation (Stanford University Press, 2008), received from the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists, a section of the American Anthropological Association.
2003
George and Mary Foster Distinguished Lecturer in Anthropology, “Cultural beliefs and Cancer Risk Factors: A Study of the Perceptions of Hispanic and Anglo Women and Physicians.” Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University (April 7).
1993
Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology