2023 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
2021. Bronislaw Malinowski Award, presented by the Society for Applied Anthropology.
2020. Elected President-Elect of the Association for Latino and Latina Anthropologists.
2019. The Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists (ALLA) award: ALLA Distinguished Career Award for 2019.
2018. Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
2009. Book Award for The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation (Stanford University Press, 2008), received from the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists, a section of the American Anthropological Association.
2009. Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America. Awarded by the Society for the Anthropology of North America, a section of the American Anthropological Association.
1993. Received the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association And the Society for Applied Anthropology