Finalist, Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award, the Jewish Book Council’s 2009 National Jewish Book Awards [for Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries] (2010)
Second Prize, British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize for Middle Eastern Studies, Brirtish Society for Middle Eastern Studies [for Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries] (2009)
Honorable Mention, first annual Benjamin L. Hooks Outstanding Book Award Contest, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, University of Memphis [for Records of Dispossession] (2004)
United States Institute of Peace Grant (2003-2004)
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Research and Writing Grant (granted through the Friends of the Institute for Palestine Studies, 2000-2001)
Rashkind Endowment Grant, Randolph-Macon College (1999, 2007, 2015, 2023)
Walter Williams Craigie Teaching Endowment Grant, Randolph-Macon College (1994, 1996, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2021)
Maurice L. Mednick Memorial Fellowship, Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges (1996, 2008, 2011, 2014)
Thomas Branch Award for Excellence in Teaching, Randolph-Macon College (1995, 2018)
Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council (1990-91)
Fulbright Student Program Fellowship (1989-90)
Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University (1987-92)
Scholarship, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University (1984-86)
