In 2009, he was awarded a Whiting Writers' Award and in 2010, "Insectopedia" received a Special Award for the Extension of Ethnographic Understanding from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology.
In 2009, he was awarded a Whiting Writers'Award. In 2010, Raffles' "Insectopedia" received a Special Award from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology.