Honors, Awards, and Grants

2013
Early Career Award, Association for Asian American Studies
2012 & 2013   
Ernest A. Lynton Award for Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty, SFSU Nominee
2011
SFSU Presidential Award
2010
Emmett R. Quady Foundation Grant
2008
California Lutheran University Diversity Professor of the Year Award Nominee
2007-08
University of California Presidential Year Dissertation Fellowship
2007   
Professor Thomas F. O’Dea Memorial Award for academic achievement in the study of religion and society
2005-07
USA Funds Access to Education Scholarship—Scholarship America
2005-06
Taiwan Ministry of Education Scholarships, International Chinese Language Program, National Taiwan University

Academia Sinica, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Institute of Ethnography, Doctoral Candidate Research Fellow
2004-05
Blakemore Freeman Fellowships for Advanced Asian Language Study at the International Chinese Language Program, National Taiwan University
2004
US State Department Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), UC Santa Barbara
2003-04
The Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Grant
The Pluralism Project: World Religions in America at Harvard University, Summer Research Grant
2002-03
University of California, Santa Barbara, Graduate Diversity Fellowship
2000-02
Graduate Theological Union and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary Tuition Grant