Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Right-Wing Movements, U.C. Berkeley, 2011-2012.

Visiting Professor of History, U.C. Berkeley 2005-2011.

Mesa Refuge Writing Residency, 2005.

California Public Health Association Media Award, 2004.

Hearst Distinguished Journalism Award, 2004.

Media Excellence Award, National Federation of Women Legislators, 2002.

Best Editorial Writing, East Bay Press Club, June, 2002.

Hearst Distinguished Journalism Award for Editorial Writing, March, 2002.

Faculty Research Fellowship, Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California, l999-2001 for project on Gender and Globalization, 2001.

Fellow, Beatrice Bain Institute, University of California, Berkeley, 2000-2001.

Best Editorial Writing, Society of Professional Journalists Northern California, 2000-2001.

Outstanding Media Award, National Association for the Mentally Ill, July 14, 2001.

Mesa Refuge, Writing Residency, November, 2000.

The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Change America, Finalist for Non-Fiction Award, Bay Area Book Reviewers’ Association, Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2000, Book of the Month Club Selection, 2000.

Hearst Distinguished Journalism Award, 2000.

Visiting Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, U.C. Berkeley, Fall, 1998.

Visiting Professor, European University of Peace Studies, Dromahair, Ireland, Fall, 1996.

Faculty Research Fellowship, Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation,University of California, 1996 for project on Gender and Globalizaion, 1996.

Inducted Honorary Member of Golden National Honor Society for contribution to women’s history, by students at U.C. Davis. Spring, 1995.

Inducted Honorary Member of Women at Cal, U.C. Berkeley, Spring, for contribution to women’s history to U.C. Berkeley, 1995.

Visiting Professor, European University of Peace Studies, StadtSchlaining, Austria, Fall, 1993.

Residential Fellow, Ragdale Foundation Illinois, Fall, 1992.

Residential Fellow, University of California, Davis Humanities Institute, 1990-l991.

Residential Fellow, Blue Mountain Lake Center Centre, New York, Fall, 1991.

Rockefeller Foundation Gender Roles Fellowship, 1998.

Summer Planning Award, University of California, Davis, to create new course on Gender and Comparative History, 1987.

Fellowship, William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, Yale University, 1987.

The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America: Distinguished Scholar Award by Criminology Section of American Sociological Ass., 1984.

Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Davis, 1983.

Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, 1978-1979.

Junior Faculty Research Award, University of California, Davis, Summer 1976.

Social Science Research Council Fellowship, 1973-1974. Studied sociology and public policy at Harvard University, 1974.

Doctoral Exams passed with Distinction, University of California, Berkeley, 1972.

Career Prize Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1967-1972.

Honors Seminar Program, University of Rochester, 1964-1967.