 Boyle has also won a number of honors and fellowships.He has twice been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, in 1996 and 2001, as well as a Fulbright scholar (1997), a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship (2001) and a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.Boyle was invited to be an Organization of American Historians distinguished lecturer for 2006-2007.