2022 - Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, awarded by Graduate School, Brown University.

2021 - Reginald D. Archambault Award for Teaching Excellence in Pre-College Education (Honorable Mention), awarded by Division of Pre-College and Undergraduate Programs, Brown University.

2017 - Pass with Distinction in the Preliminary Examinations: Social Theory and Urban Sociology, awarded by Department of Sociology, Brown University.

2010 - Best Poster Presentation (with: Catarina F. Santos and Francisco Andrade), awarded by International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean 2010.