Awards & Grants

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National Science Foundation, “Business and Human Rights: Explaining Variation in Justice and Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Violations,” PI (2019-2022, $245,000)

PEER-USAID, “Inclusive Economic Growth for Sustainable Peace? Assessing Development Mechanisms and Environmental Conservation Efforts in Post-Conflict Colombia” Awarded to Colombian academic partner, Dr. Laura Bernal Bermúdez (co-PI, 2021-2022)

Academy of Management – Social Issues in Management Best Business Ethics Paper Award, “Institutional Strengthening as Ethical Obligation: An Agonistic Approach to Business Ethics,” August 10, 2020.

Fulbright Award for Economic Development and Peacebuilding in Colombia, 2020 (declined, due to COVID)

Carnegie Corporation, “Rigor, Relevance, and Responsibility: Promoting Ethical Approaches to Policy Engagement,” co-PI (2019-2020, $500,000)

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Best Paper Award, International Association for Business and Society, “Business and Human Rights: Means-Ends Decoupling in the Oil and Gas Industry,” with Kathleen Rehbein, Michelle Westerman-Behaylo, Annie Snelson, and Paul Seaborn

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Carnegie Corporation, “Inclusive Approaches to Violence Reduction, Peacebuilding, and Governance: Research and Implications for Practice,” co-PI (2017-2018, $999,500)

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USAID Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance, co-PI (2014, $50,000, with Erica Chenoweth)

Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford’s Latin American Centre, 2013

Society for the Advancement of Management Studies to support a conference on business and human rights (2013, $8,000)

British Academy Grant, Business & Human Rights, co-PI (2013, $16,000, with Leigh Payne)

PROF Grant, Business & Human Rights, University of Denver (2013, $19,922)

Faculty Research Fund Grant, Business & Human Rights, University of Denver (2013, $3,000)

Internationalization Grant, Business & Human Rights, University of Denver (2013, $3,000)

Faculty Research Fund Grant, Business & Human Rights, University of Denver (2012, $3,000)

Nominee for the Mancur Olson Award, Best Dissertation in Political Economy (2011)

Philanthropic Educational Organization Scholar Award to support dissertation completion (2010-2011, $12,000)

Consultant, “Alternative Accountabilities for Past Human Rights Abuses,”National Science Foundation ($290,000) / Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant (£272,066), 2012-2015 (PIs: Kathryn Sikkink and Leigh A. Payne)

Consultant and Sub-Project Director, “The Impact of Transitional Justice on Human Rights andDemocracy,” National Science Foundation ($311,036) / Arts and Humanities Research Council (£213,408) Grant, 2010-2012

(PIs: Kathryn Sikkink and Leigh A. Payne)

TATA Graduate Research Grant for Research on Contemporary India, University of Wisconsin – Madison (2009-2010, $3,000)

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship in Brazil and Mexico (2008-2009, $33,000)

Zennstrom Philanthropies Research Grant, for the Transitional Justice Data Base Project, 2009-2010 ¨($62,922 with Leigh A. Payne and Andrew G. Reiter)

Smith Richardson Foundation Research Grant, for the Transitional Justice Data Base Project, 2008-2009 ($50,000 with Leigh A. Payne and Andrew G. Reiter) 

United States Institute of Peace Research Grant, for the Transitional Justice Data Base Project, 2007-2008 ($50,000 with Leigh A. Payne and Andrew G. Reiter)

Vanderbilt University and USAID’s Research and Writing Grant from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (2008, $3,000)

Foreign Language and Area Studies Academic Year Fellowship for Advanced Portuguese (2007-2008, $36,000)

High Pass Political Methodology Qualifying Exam, University of Wisconsin – Madison (2007)