Honors
Grants, Fellowships, Scholarships
- Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, 2018
- Oregon Literary Fellowship, Nonfiction, 2018, Literary Arts
- Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Scholarship in Nonfiction, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 2013
- Oregon Arts Commission, Individual Artist Fellowship award, 2009
Winner
- She Writes to Seal Press Publishing Contest, 2013
Finalist, Honorable Mention, Notable
- Finalist, 2016 Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction
- Foreword Review's 2014 IndieFab Book of the Year Honorable Mention in Autobiography/Memoir
- Notable, Best American Essays, 2010
- Honorable Mention, Pushcart Prize, 2009
- Finalist, 2009 John Guyon Prize in Literary Nonfiction, Crab Orchard Review
Academic Honors
1983-1995
- MacArthur Foundation, Postdoctoral Grant for Research and Writing on International Peace and Conflict
- Social Science Research Council, Advanced Area Studies Grant
- The Rockfeller Humanities Residency Fellowship, Women's Studies Program, University of Iowa
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, dissertation research grant
- The Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, dissertation research grants
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
