2026
Diversity Award
Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology
2025-2026
Avenali Chair
Townsend Center for the Humanities,
UC Berkeley
2024
Silver Medal Winner in LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction
Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY Awards)
Gender Without Identity, co-authored with Dr. Ann Pellegrini
2023
Annual Essay Prize
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Anti-Racist Racism: Trauma, Traumatism, Traumatophilia
2022
Scholarship Award
Division of Psychoanalysis (39), American Psychological Association
Paper presented: Anti-Racist Racism: Trauma, Traumatism, Traumatophilia
2021
First Tiresias Paper Award co-authored with Dr. Ann Pellegrini
Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee
International Psychoanalytic Association
A Feminine Boy: Normative Investments and Reparative Fantasy at the Intersections of Gender, Race, and Religion
2014
Annual Essay Prize
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Mourning the Body as Bedrock: Developmental Considerations in Treating Transsexual Patients Analytically
2014
Ralph Roughton Award
Committee of Gender and Sexuality, American Psychoanalytic Association
Mourning the Body as Bedrock: Developmental Considerations in Treating Transsexual Patients Analytically
2014
Symonds Essay Prize
Studies in Gender and Sexuality
To Suffer Pleasure: the Shattering of the Ego as the Psychic Labor of Perverse Sexuality
2013-2011
Rosetta H. Harris Fellowship
NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
2011
Ruth Stein Prize
NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
2001 – 2002
F. & J. Greenberg Scholarship
Yeshiva University
2000 – 2001
Leonard/Muriel Marcus Project Scholarship
Yeshiva University