·       Fellow, Gates Fellowship, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ($20,000 per year), 2007 - 2010.

·       Winner, Evert Strickland and Esther Hedges Scholarship, Ohio State University, ($3,500), summer 2010.

·       Winner, graduate paper award, Philosophical Studies in Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association, ($500), May 2010.

·       Winner, Michael Oliker Award (best graduate student paper), Society for the Philosophical Study of Education, ($100), November 2009, 2008, and 2006.

·       Semi-Finalist, Junior Fellowship, Harvard Society of Fellows, October 2009.

·       Winner, International Philosophy of Education Student Summer School Bursary, Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, (tuition plus room and board), June - July 2009.

·       Scholar, Gates Millennium Scholars, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, (tuition, room and board plus stipend for B.A. and first M.A.), 2001 - 2007.