Awards & Honors

Book and Article Awards

Honorable Mention, EISA Best Article Award (2025), for "Transnational Uncivil Society: Kleptocracy's Global Fightback against Liberal Activism," co-authored with John Heathershaw and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. European Journal of International Relations (2024).

Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award, Shortlist (2018), for Dictators without Borders.

Honorable Mention, Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Prize (2014), for Great Games, Local Rules.

Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award, Shortlist (2013), for Great Games, Local Rules.

Marshall Shulman Prize, Co-winner (2006), for Logics of Hierarchy. Awarded by ASEEES for the best book in foreign policy and international relations of the former communist countries.

Named Professorships and Fellowships

Tow Professor for Distinguished Scholars and Practitioners, Barnard College, 2011–2013

Inaugural Global Fellow, Open Society Foundations, 2009–2010

German Marshall Fund of the United States Transatlantic Fellow, 2004–2005

Major Grants

Carnegie Corporation of New York, Principal Investigator, "Russia and the Social Sciences at Columbia University," 2016–2025 (three grant cycles). $2,300,000.

US-Russia Foundation, Principal Investigator, "Shaping an Early Career in Russia and Eurasia: Supporting Harriman's BA-MA Program," 2018–2020. $193,000.

Norwegian Research Council, Co-Investigator, "Undermining Hegemony: The Politics of Asset Substitution," 2015–2018.

Smith Richardson Foundation, Co-Investigator (with Lincoln Mitchell), "Reassessing US-Georgia Relations," 2009–2010.

Smith Richardson Foundation, International Security Grant, "The Global Defence Posture Review: Will New Bases Create Old Political Dilemmas?," 2007.

Teaching Awards

Gladys Brooks Foundation Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, 2006–2007