[7] His book Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell (2008)[8] was recognized at the 2009 Library of Virginia Literary Awards;[9] it also earned him designation as a 2009 Georgia Author of the Year.
[11] Lombardo also published an edited volume: A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era (2010).
[19] In 2023, Lombardo was named Distinguished Professor of Bioethics and Law, by the Sindh Institute of Medical Sciences in Karachi, Pakistan, for his contribution to teaching there over the past two decades[20] and recognized as a Hastings Center Fellow, “a group of more than 200 individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, science, and technology.”[21] In recent years he has lectured in England, Austria, Italy, Russia, Pakistan and Canada, and at dozens of colleges and universities in the U.S.
[31] Lombardo consulted for several films, including Belly of the Beast (2020),[32] The Lynchburg Story (1993),[33] Race: the Power of an Illusion Part I,[34] The Difference Between Us (2003) and The Golden Door (2006).
[35] He was a featured commentator and historical consultant on the PBS program American Experience (“The Eugenics Crusade,” 2018,)[36] NPR's Hidden Brain (“Emma, Carrie, Vivian: How A Family Became A Test Case For Forced Sterilizations,” 2018),[37] and WNYC's RadioLab ("G: Unfit," 2019).