Appointed Distinguished Presidential Fellow at the Council on Library and Information Resources, 2014-2015.

Appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Coiuncil on the Humanities August 5, 2013-January 26, 2016.

Allen Smith Visiting Scholar, School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, 2012-2013.

The Richard W. Lyman Award, 2005

Vodafone Fellow, Kings College, University College London, Spring 2005