Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

College-wide Winner,Honors College, Distinguished Honors Faculty Award (2018)

College-wide Winner, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Distinguished Professor Award (April 2015)

University-wide Winner, KSU Foundation Prize for Book Publication, From Garrison State to Nation State: Political Power and the Military under Gorbachev and Yeltsin (2004)

College-wide Finalist, KSU Foundation Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences for Book publication The Solution of the Fist: Dostoevsky and the Roots of Modern Terrorism (2010)

College-wide Finalist, HSS Distinguished Teaching Award (2003)

Honorary Inductee, Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society Kennesaw State University Chapter (March 2014)

Honorary Inductee, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Kennesaw State University Chapter (May 2006)

Faculty Development Seminar Award, ''Ulster in Context: History, Culture, and the Challenge of Peace in Ireland,'' Ulster, Northern Ireland (8-27 June 1999)

Certificate, Diplomatic Academy, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Course of Study: ''The Constitution and State Structures of Russia,'' (March 1996-May 1996)

Scholarship, The George Hoffman Dissertation Prize, April 1996, The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, The George Washington University (April 1996)

Graduate Teaching Fellow, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (1992-1997)