2006 Prize of the German Latin America Research Association (ADLAF)

Dissertation "Afro-Argentines and Nation. Ways of Constructing Afro-Argentine Identity in 19th-Century Buenos Aires" (2nd prize).

2003 Walter Markov Prize for Historical Studies

Dissertation "Afro-Argentines and Nation. Ways of Constructing Afro-Argentine Identity in 19th Century Buenos Aires."