Rogers Brubaker joined the UCLA faculty in 1991 as an associate professor in sociology, rising to the rank of professor in 1994. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1999-2000, to study ethnicity and nationalism in a Transylvanian town. Brubaker has taught at UCLA since 1991. Before coming to UCLA, he was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows of Harvard University (1988-1991). He has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (1994-99), a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation (1994-99), and Fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1995-96) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1999-2000).