2024 Kipchoge Neftali Kirkland Social Justice Paper Award, College & University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies (CUFA-NCSS), “Realizing rematriation in social studies education” by Turtle Island Social Studies Collective

Turtle Island Social Studies Collective members are Lakota Hobia (Citizen Potawatomi Nation), Meredith McCoy (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe descent), Leilani Sabzalian (Alutiiq) and Sarah Shear (Askenazi Jewish, British, and Cajun French ancestry)

2023 Early Career Award, Social Studies Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), https://www.uwb.edu/news/april-2023/viral-research-study-goes-to-the-white-house

2023 Best Book Award, Society of Professors of Education, Insurgent social studies: Scholar-educators disrupting erasure & marginality, https://www.uwb.edu/news/june-2023/social-studies-meets-social-justice