Awards and Honors

University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science, and Arts, Excellence in Education Award, 2006.

American Psychological Association, International Psychology Division, Recognition Award for outstanding contributions to Anthropology and to the American Psychological Association, 2002.

University of Michigan, D'Arms Faculty Award for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities, 1998.

Wesleyan University, Alumni Association, 20th anniversary reunion, May 31, 1997, Distinguished Alumna Award in Recognition of Outstanding Achievement and Service.

University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science, and Arts, Excellence in Education Award, 1997.

University of Michigan, Latina/Latino Studies Program, Faculty Recognition for teaching and service, 1997.

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award, 1995-1996.
University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Excellence in Research Award, 1996.

MacArthur Foundation Fellows Award, July 14, 1988-1993.

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Career Development Award, for research and writing on Mexico, 1989-1992.

University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Faculty Recognition Award, 1992.

University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Faculty Fund Award, 1991-1992.

University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Excellence in Education Award, 1991.

Grants and Fellowships

Fulbright Fellow Scholarship, for teaching and research in Buenos Aires, Argentina, February-May 2007.

Lucius N. Littauer Foundation publication subvention grant for An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba (Rutgers University Press, 2007).

Faculty Fellowship Enhancement Award, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, 2006.

Institute for the Humanities, Hunting Family Faculty Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2003-2004.

Faculty Grant for Innovations in Teaching with Technology, University of Michigan, 2002-2003.

Creative Artist Grant, ArtServe Michigan, Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, 1998-1999.

American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council International Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1997-1998.

University of Michigan, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Faculty Research Award for Scholarly Activities on Women and Gender, 1996-1997.

Rockefeller Residence Fellowship in the Humanities, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, January 1996-May 1996.

International Institute and Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan, Faculty Travel Grant for research in Cuba, 1994.

Lucius N. Littauer Foundation grant, for research and writing about Cuban Jewish life stories, 1993-1994.

Jakobson Scholarship for Non-Fiction, to attend the Wesleyan Writers Conference, Wesleyan University, June, 1993.

Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Postdoctoral Research Award, for research on the configurations of Spanish historical memory, June-August, 1992.

Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan, Small Scale Project Grant, “Photography, Autobiography, and Ethnography: Critical and Creative Explorations by an Anthropologist and a Photographer,” with Joanne Leonard, l990-l991.

Council for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan, Faculty Development Fund Teaching Grant, to develop a new course on “Women Writing Culture: Twentieth-Century American Women Ethnographers,” 1990-1991.

Rockefeller Residence Fellowship in the Program in Atlantic History, Culture and Society, Johns Hopkins University, for postdoctoral research on Mexico, September 1985-June 1986.

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, for research and writing on Mexico, September 1985-September 1987.