The International Society for Research on Aggression selected Kwan as one of its Lagerspetz Award winners for his conference presentation on “Diagnosing the Spatial Correlates of Hate Crime.”
Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences has awarded Kwan and his coauthors its Lupia-Mutz Outstanding Publication Award for their article, “ The Psychology of Justice Buildings. ”
The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality has selected Kwan as a Co-Chair of its Race/Ethnicity & Sexuality Special Interest Group . Kwan is currently in his second year of a two-year term as a member of the SSSS Board of Directors and is completing ongoing research on the dating and intimate relationships for those who are criminally stigmatized.