Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Research Fellowship, 2004
Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the Best Article Published in the Journal of the History of Ideas, 2001
Princeton Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, 2001
University of Pennsylvania Faculty Fellowship, 2000
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1998
Richard S. Dunn Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1997
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1993-95
Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1986-90
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, 1988-89
Ira and Abraham Konig Fellowship, 1989
Humanities Graduate Research Grant of the University of California, Berkeley, 1989
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Special M.A. Scholarship (declined), 1986