- Research Grant, German Academic Exchange Board (DAAD), 2014-15, Exchange Program with Portugal
- Research Grant, German Academic Exchange Board (DAAD), 2014-15, Exchange Program with Croatia
- Research Grant, German Academic Exchange Board (DAAD), 2012-13, Exchange Program with Australia
- Research Fellowship, German Science Foundation (DFG), 2011-2012
- Achievement Certificate for 10-Year Service to Jacobs University, December 2011
- Research Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Collegium Budapest, 2008-2009
- Research Fellowship, National Humanities Center, North Carolina, USA, 2007-2008
- Research Fellowship, Nancy and Norton Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2003-2004 and 2007
- Mayers Fellowship, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, 2003-2004
- Travel Grant, German Science Foundation, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Travel Grant, Society of Literature and Science, 2000 IREX Short-Term Travel Grant, 1999-2000
- Three-Year Research Grant from the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation, 1993-1996
- Grant from the Walter Kaminsky Foundation, 1990-1991
- State Grant for Exchange Students at Moscow State University, 1990-1991