HONORS
Finalist, NAACP Image Award, Outstanding Literary Work, Debut Author Category Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts
Farrel Grant for Public Policy and the Badesch Fellowship
Finalist, National Council on Crime and Delinquency’s Media, Just Society Award for Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts
New Scholar Award, Semi-Finalist, American Society of Criminology’s Division on People of Color and Crime
ARTICLE AWARDS
Winner, Distinguished Article Prize, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association for Criminology Article, “The Inter-organizational Utility of Welfare Stigma in the Criminal Justice System.”
Winner - Kimberlé Crenshaw Outstanding Article Award, The Society for the Study of Social Problem’s, Division on Racial and Ethnic Minorities for “Criminal Justice Through ‘Colorblind’ Lenses: A Call to Examine the Mutual Constitution of Race and Criminal Justice.”
BOOK AWARDS
Winner, ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, Crook County: Racism and Injustice
Winner, Edwin Sutherland Book Award, The Society for the Study of Social Problem’s, Law Division for Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts
Finalist, C. Wright Award, The Society for the Study of Social Problem’s, for Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts
Winner, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Prize, The Society for the Study of Social Problem’s, Law Division for Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts
Winner, Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, The American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (SREM) for Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts
Winner, Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, The American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Sociology of Culture Section for Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts
Best Book Award, the American Sociological Association’s, Section on Race, Class and Gender for Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts
Winner, Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards, Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts
Winner, Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers for Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts
Finalist, Prose Category Award for Law and Legal Studies, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers for Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts