2020
Verbruggen Prize of the De Re Militari: the Society for Medieval Military History (April 13, 2020) for Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1300). Publisher’s version
2013
Nicolae Iorga Prize of the Romanian Academy (December 19, 2013) for The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050. The Early Middle Ages. Publisher’s version
2006
Choice Outstanding Academic Title in History, Geography & Area Studies (Central & Eastern Europe) for East Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages; see Choice 44 (2007), no. 5, 787
2002
Choice Outstanding Academic Title in History, Geography & Area Studies (Central & Eastern Europe) for The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, c. 500-700 A.D.; see in Choice 40 (2003), no. 5, 779
2001
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association (January 3, 2003) for The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, c. 500-700 A.D. Publisher’s version