Awards

  • Distinguished Scholar Award (formerly research grant): Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, $24,000 project: Negotiating with Criminal Actors in Latin America, 2020.

  • Katzenstein’s prize for best first book in International Relations, Comparative Politics, or Political Economy. Departament of Government, Cornell University. 2019.

  • Best Book Prize (2018), Scholarship/Research – International Association for the Study of Organized Crime

  • University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Seed Grant for project “The impact of marijuana legalization in the US on international criminal networks in Colombia”.

  • Cogut Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University, Fall 2012.

  • Drugs, Security, and Democracy Fellowship, Social Science Research Council and Open Society Foundation, 2011.

  • Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2010-2011.

  • United States Institute of Peace, Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar, 2010-2011.

  • Tinker Travel Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, Brown University, 2008 and 2009.

  • Graduate Development Program Fellowship and Summer Travel Grant, Watson Institute, Brown University, 2008 and 2009.

  • Spatial Thinking in the Social Sciences S4 Fellow, Brown University, 2008.

  • United Nations-Fulbright Fellowship, 2006.

  • Tinker Travel Grant, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University, 2004.

  • Fulbright Scholarship for Graduate Studies in the US, Barsa Supplemental Award, 2004-2006.

  • Colfuturo Scholarship, 2004-2006.