She was an inaugural Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology. Box-Steffensmeier is currently the President-Elect of the American Political Science Association, having served as the Treasurer and Vice President previously. She also served as the President of the Midwest Political Science Association and Political Methodology Society. She has twice received the Gosnell Award for the best work in political methodology and the Emerging Scholar Award of the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section of the American Political Science Association in 2001. The Box-Steffensmeier Graduate Student Award, given annually by the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is named after her in recognition of her contributions in political methodology and her support of women in the field.