She has been awarded with the Rudolph Virchow Award from the Critical Anthropology for Global Health Group, the Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, and the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize from the American Ethnological Society (for paper "A World Unmade: Diabetes and the Occult in Northern Ghana")
Archive – November 2011
"Patient Autonomy and the Right to Transgender Health" (excerpt from his senior thesis) won honorable mention, 2011 Rudolph Virchow Undergraduate Student Award, Society for Medical Anthropology.