- Best Paper in Comparative Policy Award, 2015, Midwest Political Science Association, sponsored by the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice and International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum.
- David Greenstone Award, 2010, from Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association for the best book on politics and history published within the previous two calendar years.
- Mentor Award, Women’s Caucus, American Political Science Association, 2008: For mentoring graduate students and assistant professors.
- Women and Politics Best Paper Award, 2002: for best paper presented at the American Political Science Association on women and politics, Women and
Politics Section, AGender and Political Citizenship: Comparative Perspectives on Institutional and Policy Foundations - Breckinridge Award, 2000: for best paper presented on women and politics at the Midwest Political Science Association meeting, AGender and Models of Democratization: The Enigma of Women’s Political Leadership.
- Mary Parker Follett Award, 1999: for best article published on politics and history, Politics and History Section, American Political Science Association, A Race, Class, and Gender in the Progressive Era: Restructuring State and Society, in Progressivism and the New Democracy, edited by Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press (1999).
- Marian Irish Award, 1998: for best paper presented on women and politics at the Southern Political Science Association, AGender and Democratization: A Crossnational Study of Women’s Leadership Patterns.
- Women and Politics Best Paper Award, 1994: for best paper presented at the American Political Science Association on women and politics, Women and Politics Section, “Abortion Rights Alchemy and the U.S. Supreme Court: What’s Wrong and How to Fix It”.
- Best Paper Award, 1986: for best paper on women and education, American Educational Research Association, “Women’s Educational and Achievement Patterns in the Nineteenth Century: From Caste to Community”.