Scholarships & Awards
2016 American Education Research Association (AERA) Language and Social Processes SIG Emerging Scholar Award.
2015 Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters (CAL) Research Award, $3000.
2015 Michigan State University (Asian Studies Center) Dr. Delia Koo Global Faculty Endowment Award, $2978
2015 Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters (CAL) External Connections Award, $2000 [$1000 for my external mentor, Bonny Norton, and $1000 for me]
2012 American Education Research Association (AERA) Second Language SIG Dissertation of the Year Award.
2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison Dissertator Fellowship, $9,378.
2010 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Graduate Student Award, $800. Award to present a paper at AAAL 2010 in Atlanta.
2009 Future Faculty Partner of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Academy.
2008 M.A.K Halliday Scholarship, $800. Award conferred by the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia.
2001 Fulbright Foreign Student Program, $11,000. One-year funding to pursue a M.Ed. at Harvard University.
Grants
2017 Creating Inclusive Excellence (CIEG) Grant, $30, 000. Awarded (with Joseph Cheatle, Steven Fraiberg & Sonja Wang; lead principal investigator: Peter De Costa) to conduct a study titled, “Neighborhood Writing Centers: Connecting to University-wide Services to Enhance the International Student Experience.”
2017 Language Learning Early Career Research Grant, $10, 000. Awarded to conduct a study titled, “Intersecting Identities and Communicative Practices: A Connective Ethnographic Case Study of Undergraduate International Students.”
2017 Collaboration across Disciplines and across Languages College of Arts and Letters Grant, $10,000. Co-developer (with Koen Van Gorp) of a new Citizen Scholar undergraduate course titled, “Global Student Citizens Engaging Identity Politics in a Multilingual World” at MSU.
2017 Engaged Pedagogy Fund College of Arts and Letters Grant, $5, 000. Co-host (with Shawn Loewen) of invited visiting professor, Gary Barkhuizen (University of Auckland, New Zealand), at MSU in Fall 2017 to explore teaching and research collaboration.
2016 Michigan State University, $500. College of Arts & Letters Undergraduate Research Initiative (CAL-URI) funding to conduct research on designing faculty social media identities.
2015 Raising the Department Profile Grant, $3000. Organizer of a roundtable titled, “Translingual Practices in an Age of Globalization: Prospects and Possibilities,” held on April 22, 2016 at MSU. Invited speaker: Suresh Canagarajah.
2015 Language Learning Roundtable grant (with Kathleen Bailey), $9,963. Organizer of an invited colloquium titled “Global Englishes and SLA: Establishing a Dialogue and Common Research Agenda”, held at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Applied Linguistics.
2015 Michigan State University, $700. CAITLAH Faculty Development Small Grant Program for Applied and Inclusive Teaching. Funding used to create an IAH undergraduate course, Identity and Ideology in Multilingual Settings, for Spring 2016.
2014 Michigan State University, $7,013. Technology for the Learning Environment (TLE) grant to purchase 20 NVivo licenses to enhance teaching in my LLT 874 (Qualitative Research in Second Language Studies) course. [grant co-shared with Ellen Cushman and John Monberg from Writing Rhetoric and American Cultures department]
2014 Michigan State University, $1000. College of Arts & Letters Undergraduate Research Initiative (CAL-URI) funding to conduct research on the academic socialization of Chinese undergraduate students.
2012 Andrew Mellon Foundation Stipend, $5625. Awarded by Middlebury College for teaching Middlebury College undergraduate students enrolled in EDUC 8520 (Curriculum Design).
