Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, San Diego, 1994 Henry Mitchell MacCracken Fellowship and Dean's Fellowship, New York University, 1995 Trustee Dissertation Fellowship, Skidmore College, 2000 Ann E. Plato Predoctoral Fellowship, Trinity College, 2001 Non-Resident Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, 2005 Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching Excellence, Yale University, 2006 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowship, 2006 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2006 Junior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University, 2006 Fellow, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, 2007 Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 2011 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award for Body and Soul, 2012 American Sociological Association Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award for Body and Soul, 2012 Letitia Woods Brown Award for Body and Soul, 2012 Best Book Award from the Association for Humanist Sociology for Body and Soul, 2012 C. Wright Mills Award (Finalist) for Body and Soul, 2012 Just Wellness Award from the Third Root Community Health Center for Body and Soul, a "work at the nexus of healing and social justice," 2013[29] African American Culture and Philosophy Award, Purdue University, 2014 Visiting Fellow, Academy of Advanced African Studies, University of Bayreuth, 2014 A Favorite Book of 2016, The Wall Street Journal for The Social Life of DNA, 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction (Finalist) for The Social Life of DNA, 2017 Elected to Membership, Sociological Research Association, 2017 Elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2018 Elected as a Fellow of The Hastings Center, 2018 Top 35 Women in Higher Education, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2020[30] Diana Forsythe Prize (Honorable Mention) from the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology & Computing and the Society for the Anthropology of Work of the American Anthropological Association for The Social Life of DNA, 2020 Morison Prize, recognizing outstanding individuals who combine humanistic values with effectiveness in practical affairs, particularly in science and technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020 Elected to Membership, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2020[31] Elected to Membership, American Philosophical Society, 2020[32] Elected to Membership, National Academy of Medicine, 2020[33]