Fellow, Hawthornden Retreat for Writers, 2015, Senior Research Fellowship, Tufts University, 2014, Fellow, Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities, Bogliasco, Italy, 2011, and Franklin Research Award, American Philosophical Society, 2010. Joseph T. Criscenti Best Article Prize, New England Council of Latin American Studies, 2007, Faculty Fellow, Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, 2006-2008, Jeffrey Weiss Best Article Award, Theatre Historical Society of America, 2005, Dwight-Englewood Distinguished Alumni Award, 2005, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities Project Grant, 2002, University College of Citizenship and Public Service, Curricular Innovation Award, 2001, Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship, 1999, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Fellow, 1998, Joseph T. Criscenti Best Article Prize, New England Council of Latin American Studies, 1996, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1993-1994, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, 1994, Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in the Humanities, 1993, Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities, Harvard University, 1990-1991, Social Science Research Council Fellow, 1989-1990, Charlotte W. Newcombe-Woodrow Wilson National Fellow, 1986-1987, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1983-1984, Distinguished Scholar Award, UCLA, 1982

Urban and Symbolic Anthropology, Art and Aesthetics, Theory, Cultural Performance, Popular Culture, Myth and Ritual, Narrative, Latin America (Venezuela, Bolivia, the Amazon)