Awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Selected, Sloan Research Fellow

Selected, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Azrieli Global Scholar

Recognized as a 2024 Clarivate Citation Laureate by the Institute for Scientific Information.

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
 

Winner, the 2025 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award by the American Physical Society

Winner, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar Award

Awarded 2024 Sloan Fellowship

Named to American Academy of Sciences and Letters

Elected lifetime member of the Council on Criminal Justice

Selected as 2024 Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Winner, the 2025 Joseph A. Burton Forum Award by the American Physical Society

Named Andrew Carnegie Fellow

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship

Awarded grant from Public Welfare Foundation

Winner, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities and Social Sciences

Winner, the Center of Effective Lawmaking's Best Publication Award; the Dell S. Wright Award by the American Political Science Association

2023 Moynihan Prize for scholarship and public service

Named to the editorial board of the Journal of Law and Courts

Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize, Zurich, Switzerland-based Jacobs Foundation; President-Elect, 2023, President, 2024, American Economic Association

Elected to Academy of Arts and Sciences

Elected to American Philosophical Society

Winner, A.SK Bright Mind Award by the WZB Berlin Social Science Center; Member, Census Bureau, National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations

Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy & Autocracy, American Political Science Association

Winner, Best Article Award, American Journal of Political Science

Named to board of directors, National Endowment for Democracy

Elected to Poland's Copernican Academy

Appointed to National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine Committee on Population;
Named to Vox Media's inaugural "Future Perfect 50 List" (of "visionaries that have made an impact in their fields to improve lives now and in the future")

Fellow, American Geophysical Union

Received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award

Outstanding Publication Award, Section on Aging and the Life Course, American Sociological Association — “‘A Nowadays Disease’: HIV/AIDS and Social Change in a Rural South African Community”

Winner, Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin

Named the Woh Hup Distinguished Lecturer, National University of Singapore and the Patten Lecturer, Indiana University

Named a fellow of the Econometric Society

Finalist, Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award from the UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability

2023 Global Economy Prize, Kiel Institute for the World Economy

Jury Award for Extended Reality Experiences, South by Southwest Film Festival

2022 Kyoto Prize — “Development of an Innovative Methodology for Integrative Analysis of Pathogen Evolution and Epidemics”

Fellow, Econometric Society

Fellow, Econometric Society

Fellow, American Physical Society
Appointee, U.N. Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters

Nominee, 2021 Arms Control Person of the Year, Arms Control Association

Nicholas J. Nicholas Jr. Fellow, Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Princeton University, 2021-2022

Co-Chair, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Ad Hoc Committee on Equity and Innovation,
2022 ShortList, Maah Stone Book Award

Director, Fung Global Fellows Program

Director, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies

Lapidus-Weisberg Fellow, New-York Historical Society, 2022-2023