“This is profoundly transformative work in that it is redrawing established boundaries of knowledge by moving beyond established national and political categories that have defined scholarly disciplines for the past century,” added a nominator.

She was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship in 2007 and a Fulbright Visiting Chair of North American Politics and Society at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, in 2009.

Outside of academia, she has served as a consultant for the Central Intelligence Agency’s Strategic Assessments Group.

Along with numerous journal articles and book chapters, Croucher is author of three books, The Other Side of the Fence: American Migrants in Mexico, Globalization and Belonging: Identity Politics in a Changing World and Imagining Miami, Ethnic Politics in a Postmodern World. She is co-author of Blacks and the Quest for Economic Equality: The Political Economy of Employment in Southern Communities in the United States and is working on another book project, Globalization and the American Nation.“

From her first book, which provided a new perspective on the social construction of identities and the political contestations that flow from that, to her last book, which modified theoretical concepts associated with the study of international migration, the imprint of original research is consistently evident,” states one of her nominators.

During her tenure at Miami, Croucher has been the "quintessential prototype of the teacher-scholar model. Her major contributions to the university lie in the profound impact she has on students, to whom she devotes an extraordinary amount of her time," states one of her nominators.

Among her many honors at Miami she has received the 2011 University Distinguished Scholar Award, the 2003 College of Arts and Science Distinguished Educator Award and the 1998 Associated Student Government Outstanding Teacher Award. In addition, she was named the 2007-2012 Paul Rejai Professor of Political Science.

The call for nominations for the University Distinguished Professor Award is issued every other year, alternating with the Distinguished Service Award. It is presented to no more than two recipients during the first Faculty Assembly meeting of the academic year.