Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2022
President, American Society of Primatologists, 2020-2022
Primates 2020 Most Cited Paper Award for Isbell, L.A. and Etting, S.F. 2017. Scales drive visual detection, attention, and memory of snakes in wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus). Primates 58:121-129.
President-Elect, American Society of Primatologists, 2018-2020
Elected member, California Academy of Sciences, 2015
W.W. Howells Book Award, Biological Anthropology Section, American Anthropological Association, 2014
UC Davis Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award Graduate and Professional Teaching, 2010
Dean's Innovation Award, Division of Social Sciences, College of Letters and Science, UC Davis, 2010