 Grabe has been a University of California DC Fellow, received a campus Excellence in Teaching Award, was awarded the Georgia Babladelis Best Paper Award from the Psychology of Women Quarterly, and has been a recipient of the Denmark-Reuder Award for Outstanding International Contributions to the Psychology of Women and Gender.Her research at UCSC has been funded by NSF, the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School, the UC Global Health Initiative, the Chicano/Latino Research Cluster at UCSC, the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the REED Foundation.Since her appointment at UCSC, Grabe has gained increasing international attention.