Grants and Awards

Research Grants

2025-2026    Proposal Enhancement Grant ($11,080, Grant #: 009561)

• Project: “Examining In-Service Teachers’ Identities, Critical Language Awareness, and Teaching Approaches for English/Multilingual Learners in the Midwest” 

• Awarded by Ball State University on December 10, 2024.

2023-2024    Alpha Support Grant ($4,960, Grant #: 162896): 

• Project: “The Possibility of Healing After Racial Marginalization and the Investment of English Learning: A Long-Term Case Study”

• Awarded by Ball State University on November 1, 2023. 

2022–2023   Racial Justice Grant ($500): 

• Racial justice project: "Developing a lesson unit to empower racially minoritized Asian student populations"

• This project led to critical changes in the syllabi of two undergraduate writing courses (EDUTL 1902/1901) at The Ohio State University, USA

• Awarded by The Affordable Learning Exchange (ALX), The Ohio State University

2022–2023   T&L Graduate Student Travel Grant ($300): 

• Financial assistance for presenting research work at conferences, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University, USA

2017–2019   Research Fellowship Grant ($34,000): 

• Succeeding generations in foundational disciplines, Two-year fellowship for doctoral students with great research potential, Seoul National University, South Korea

Other Grants

2021   Student Emergency Grant ($440): 

• Financial assistance for students, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University, USA

Awards

2021–2022   Graduate Associate Teaching Award ($2000):

• The university’s highest recognition of the exceptional teaching provided by graduate instructors. 

• Awarded by The Ohio State University on March 15, 2022.

Merit-based Scholarships 

2021–2022   EHE Education Fund for Excellence Scholarship ($1600)

• College of Education & Human Ecology, The Ohio State University, USA

2021–2022   EHE Emerson and Lucy Zuck Fund Scholarship ($1600)

• College of Education & Human Ecology, The Ohio State University, USA

2017–2018   Academic Excellence ($1000)

• Baeksan Foundation, South Korea

2015-2016   Academic Excellence (20% of the tuition)

• Department of English Language Education, Seoul National University, South Korea