• CICW Center for Islam in the Contemporary World grantrecipient  2022

• Subject Matter Expert on the project PI led by Dr. Mia Bloom: The Minerva Research Initiative sub award ay UML on Middle East State Stability.
• Earned the “Advancing Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work Seed Grant”,  University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2011-2012 for travel to research the Turkish Ottoman Archives and the Tunisian Archives.
• Awarded Best Teacher Award at the University of Massachusetts Lowell 2014.
• Awarded the Best Teacher Award from University of Maryland University College for the first course taught in Political Science 1990-1991.