American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature 2022

New York Institute for the Humanities Fellow

Guggenheim Foundation Fellow 2006

Sowell Collection Author

Pen/Martha Albrand Award for the Memoir Finalist 1998

ICWA/Crane-Rogers Foundation, Northeast Africa Fellow 1988-1990

Affiliations

Lapham’s Quarterly Editorial Board

Trustee, Institute of Current World Affairs

The Century Association