• Brent K. Marshall Paper Award, Environment and Technology Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems (2017)
  • ​For paper "Elites, Embeddedness, and Environmental Inequality: Examining the Growth in Farmland Acquisition in Brazilian Sugarcane"
• ​Student Paper Award, Sociology of Agriculture and Food Research Interest Group, Rural Sociological Society (2017)
  
  • ​For paper "Racialized Nature: Uneven Environmental Justice in the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry"
    
• ​John H. Kolb Award for Outstanding Research in Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2017)
• Rural Sociological Society Diversity Scholarship (2015 & 2017)
• Wisconsin-Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (2016)
• Fulbright IIE Fellowship (2015, Brazil)
• Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship (2011 & 2014, Portuguese)
• Advanced Opportunity Fellowship (2010-2017)

Sugarcane trailers in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil

Sugarcane farmland in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil

A mechanical harvester on a sugar-ethanol mill in the state of São Paulo, Brazil