- Modern Languages Association Support the Census Grant, "Town-Gown support for Schenectady's HTC (LEP) Communities." $500. 2019
- ASIANetwork Student Faculty Fellowship, “Chasing the China Dream,” $20,000. 2019
- MOSH (Mellon Our Shared Humanities) Technology Mini-grant (Union) “VR” PI $500. 2019
- MOSH (Mellon Our Shared Humanities) Discovery Grant (Union), “Collaborative Investigation of Combined FL-STEM Course Synergies” PI $8,200, 2016
- Humanities Faculty Research Fund (Union), $1879, 2015
- US Department of Education Foreign Language Assistance Program Grant (FLAP), contributing author, curriculum writer, program designer, and faculty mentor, Schenectady City School District, 2006-2009
- Internal Freeman Foundation course development award for The New Wall of China an inter- disciplinary course co-taught with Civil Engineering faculty member on the Three Gorges Dam project, 2005
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship Award, 2002
- Union Faculty Research Development Grant, Summer, 2001
- Union Mellon Technology Development Grant, 2000
- Union Faculty Research Development Grant, Fall, 1999
- Washington University Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Spring 1998
- Washington University Dean’s Dissertation Fellow, Spring 1998
- Washington University Teaching Fellowship, 1992, 1993, 1997
- Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Scholarship, 1996
- National Security Education Program (NSEP) Scholarship, 1995
- Bardwell Memorial Fellowship (Alumnae Association of Mount Holyoke College), 1994
- Washington University Graduate Fellowship, 1991, 1994
- Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Summer 1989
- Sarah Williston Scholar (Mount Holyoke College), 1987