United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office and PeaceNexus Foundation grant, Methodologies to Cost Peacebuilding Needs (with Nikolas Emmanuel), 2017.
BTI Transformation Index, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Germany, Country Consultant for Cote d’Ivoire (2023).
Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship, Carnegie Foundation/Institute of International Education, 2016. Project: “Universities as Potential Sites for Radicalization and Impacts on State-Building.”
CADFP Mini-Grant for Conference Participation, Carnegie Foundation/Institute of International Education, 2016, (with Dr. Fredrick Ogenga).
Research and Artistry Grant, NIU, 2016. Project: “Post-Conflict Institutional Designs: Peacebuilding and Democracy in Kenya and Sierra Leone.”
Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship, Carnegie Foundation/Institute of International Education, 2014. Project: Rongo University College (Kenya) peace and conflict curriculum development and research collaboration.”
Multi-country Research Fellowship, Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), 2012. Project title: “International State-Building: Lessons from the Civil Wars in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Côte d’Ivoire.”
Consultant: Country Expert (Sierra Leone), Kellogg Institute (University of Notre Dame) and University of Gothenburg (Sweden), 2013 to present. Project title: “Varieties of Democracy.”
Cobb Fellowship, NIU, 2016. Project title: “Center for Media, Democracy, Peace and Security (Rongo University College) Research Collaboration.”
Sabbatical, Northern Illinois University, 2010 and 2018.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Research in West Africa, West African Research Association, Summer 2008. Project tile: “State Decay and Regional Insecurity: A Critical Examination of the International Peace Mediation in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Cote d'Ivoire.”
Cobb Fellowship, NIU, 2009. Project: “Study Abroad Program to Sierra Leone.”
Research and Artistry Grant, NIU, Summer 2005. Project title: “State Decay and Regional Insecurity: A Critical Examination of the Peace Mediation role of the International Community in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Cote d'Ivoire.”
Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute Grant, Provost’s Task Force on Multicultural Transformation, NIU, May 2005.
Dissertation Fellowship, New School for Social Research, 2001-2002.
Elinor Goldmark Black Dissertation Fellowship, New School for Social Research, 2000-2001.
Doctoral Fellowship, Toda Institute, 2000-2001.
New Social Science Training Fellowship, New School for Social Research, 1999.
University Fellowship, New School for Social Research, 1998-2000.
Graduate Faculty Fellowship, New School for Social Research, 1997-1998.