Honors
Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2020-2021
Research Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEH, 2019-2021
Force and Contention in Contemporary China has been nominated By Cambridge U Press for the Best Book Award in the American Sociological Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements
Cambridge University Press (United Kingdom, Cambridge) - CUP, 2017
Senior Scholar Grant
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (Taiwan, Taipei) - CCKF, 2010-2011
Collaborative Research Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEH, 2009-2013
Senior Research Grant
United States Institute of Peace (United States, Washington D.C.) - USIP, 2007-2008
Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2006
Offer of a Chair in Modern Chinese History and Politics
University of Vienna (Austria, Vienna), 2006
Fellowship
Whiting Foundation (United States, Brooklyn), 2000-2001
Fellow and Member
Institute for Advanced Study (United States, Princeton) - IAS, 2002
Senior Scholar Research Grant
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (Taiwan, Taipei) - CCKF, 2001-2002
Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEH, 1999
Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEH, 1997
Fellowship
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (United States, New York) - HFG, 1995-1996
Fellowship
American Council of Learned Societies (United States, New York) - ACLS, 1992
Senior Fellow, CSCPRC/Academy of Sciences Program for Scholarly Exchange with People's Republic of China
Chinese Academy of Sciences (China, Beijing) - CAS, 1992
Fellow
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEH, 1992
Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEH, 1992
Summer Stipend
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEH, 1989
National Endowment Travel to Collections Award
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEH, 1989
Genevieve Gorst Hereford Award for outstanding resesarch in social sciences
University of Wisconsin–Madison (United States, Madison) - UW, 1984
Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEH, 1982
Humanities Fellowship
Rockefeller Foundation (United States, New York), 1980-1981
Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEH, 1979-1980
Best Ph.D. Dissertation of the Year
University of Wisconsin–Madison (United States, Madison) - UW, 1975
Organizational Affiliations
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D.
Florida State University
M.A.
Florida State University
B.A.