Winner of the Martha Foschi Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching, University of British Columbia, 2019.

Winner of the Canadian Sociological Association Early Investigator Award, 2016.

Wendy Roth's book, Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race, has been published by Stanford University Press (2012). 

Winner of the Isis Duarte Prize from the Haiti-Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies Association, 2015.

Honorable Mention for the Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Division on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2014. 

Winner of the American Sociological Association Dissertation Award for best dissertation submitted in the previous calendar year, 2007.