The two University of Texas at Dallas faculty members received the 2020 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award. This year he received external awards for both his teaching and his research, including a project designed to identify best practices for preventing students from failing or withdrawing from classes. He is a past recipient of the University’s President’s Teaching Excellence Award in Undergraduate Instruction. His book, Raise the Debt, received the International Political Economy Annual Best Book Award from the International Studies Association. Thirty-seven UT Dallas faculty members have received the award.