- 2022: Barrington Moore Best Book Award, Section for Comparative and Historical Sociology, American Sociological Association, for Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles (University of California Press, 2021).
- 2022 Gordon Hirabayashi Best Book Award--Honorable Mention, Section on Human Rights, American Sociological Association, for Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles (University of California Press, 2021)
- 2021: Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Award, Law & Society Association (for "empirical scholarship that has contributed most effectively to the advancement of research in law and society.)
- 2019: Lee Founders Award (for lifetime of work in the tradition of humanist sociology), Society for the Study of Social Problems.
- 2019: Lifetime Achievement Award, Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems.
- 2019: Fellowship, Paris Institute for Advanced Studies (February through June 2019).
- 2018: Fellowship, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa (July through December 2018).
- 2017: Visiting Scholar, Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, Belfast (June).
- 2017: Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Distinguished Scholar Award, Section for Crime, Law and Deviance, American Sociological Association.
- 2017: William J. Chambliss Lifetime Achievement Award, Law & Society Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems.
- 2016-17: Candidate for President, Society for the Study of Social Problems.
- 2016-17: Elected Chair, Section for Human Rights, American Sociological Association.
- 2015: Guest Scholar, Fondation Maison des Science de l’Homme, Paris (summer).
- 2014-23: Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota.
- 2014- : Affiliate Faculty, University of Minnesota School of Law
- 2013-14: Fellowship, Käte Hamburger Institute for Advanced Study “Law as Culture” (Bonn, Germany).
- 2010-11: Visiting Research Professor, Humboldt Center for Social and Political Research, Humboldt University, Berlin: “Collective Representations and Memories of Atrocities after Judicial Intervention.”
- 2010: Collaborative Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center: “Collective Criminality and Human Rights: Violence, Memory, Responsibility” (with John Hagan and Jens Meierhenrich).
- 2008: Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Minnesota, Fall Semester 2008.
- 2003-04: Visiting Professor, Karl-Franzens Universität (Graz, Austria).
- 2000: Visiting Professor, Ludwig-Maximilian Universität München, (Munich, Germany—Spring Semester).
- 1987-88: John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University (supplemental funds from DAAD): “The Construction of Federal Sentencing Guidelines in Light of Max Weber’s Sociology of Law.”
- 1986: Senior Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Metropolitan Planning and Research (declined in favor of a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University).
- 1982: Research Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Metropolitan Planning and Research, and DAAD, “Community based Crime Prevention and Ethnic Minorities: How to Learn from American Experiences for West German Cities.”