Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professorshipaward (2022-2026), Northern Illinois University.
MAC Academic Leadership Program (ALDP) Fellow (2023/24)
Visiting Distinguished Faculty (at large), International Relations and Diplomacy, Riara University, Nairobi, Kenya (since 2021).
Outstanding International Educator Award, Northern Illinois University (2015).
Carnegie Foundation African Diaspora Fellow, Rongo University, Kenya (2014 and 2016).
Senior Fellow, Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Canada (2016-17).
Lillian Cobb Award for Achievement in Global Education and Service, NIU (2010).
Distinguish Service Award, Sierra Leone Community Association of Chicago (2008).
Fellow, Program on Ethnic and Federal Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria (2002).
Fellow, Democracy and Diversity Summer Institute, Transregional Center for Democratic Studies and Cape Town University, Cape Town, South Africa (January 2000).
Fellow, summer institute on “Attitudes, Identities, and Legitimacy: the Political System and the Nation.” International Center, University of Tuebingen, Germany (July 2000).
Fellow, Hungarian Center for Defense of Human Rights, Budapest, Hungary (January 1995).