Selected Awards & Fellowships

External:

2021-22

  • Winner of the Sociological Forum’s 35th Anniversary Graduate Student Paper Competition for “Developing and Deploying Broker Wisdom: How Aspiring Migrants Navigate a Broker-Centric Migration System in Vietnam.”

2021

  • Best Student Paper Award (formerly Shils-Coleman Award) in Theory Section for “The Third Element of Migration: Tertius Carpens and the Brokerage of Cross-Border Mobility in Vietnam,” American Sociological Association

  • Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar Award in International Migration Section for “The Third Element of Migration: Tertius Carpens and the Brokerage of Cross-Border Mobility in Vietnam,” American Sociological Association

  • Southeast Asian Studies Archives Fellowship, Southeast Asian Studies Archives, The University of Washington & The Henry Lucy Foundation

2019-20

  • Graduate Student Research Grant, Blum Center for Global Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development, University of California Santa Barbara

2019

  • Ethnography Incubator Fellowship, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago

2012

  • U.S. Student Fellowship (for research in Trinidad and Tobago), The Fulbright Program

2011

  • Graduate Student Paper Award in Asian and Asian American Section for “Destiny of the Poor: The Transnational Migration of Vietnamese Laborers to Trinidad and Tobago,” American Sociological Association

Internal:

2020-21

  • Silton Undergraduate Research Mentorship Award, Sociology Department, UCLA ($350)

  • Dissertation Year Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCLA ($20,000 plus tuition and fees)

  • Taiwan Studies Lectureship Graduate Fellowship, Asia Pacific Center, UCLA ($7,000)

2018-19

  • International Institute Fieldwork Fellowship, UCLA ($2,500

  • Taiwan Studies Lectureship Graduate Fellowship, Asia Pacific Center, UCLA ($4,500)

2017-18          

  • Teaching Assistant Award, Sociology, Sociology Department, UCLA

  • Taiwan Studies Lectureship Graduate Fellowship, Asia Pacific Center, UCLA ($5,000)

2016-17          

  • Taiwan Studies Lectureship Graduate Fellowship, Asia Pacific Center, UCLA ($6,000)

  • Professor Harry H. L. Kitano Academic Prize, Asian American Studies Center, UCLA

  • Graduate Student Working Group Grant, The Institute on Inequality and Democracy, UCLA ($2,500)

2016           

  • Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (with Roger Waldinger), UCLA ($6,000)

2015-16

  • Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA ($25,000)

  • Professor Harry H. L. Kitano Fellowship, Asian American Studies Center, UCLA

  • Ben & Alice Hirano Academic Prize, Asian American Studies Center, UCLA, 2015-16

2015

  • Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (with Rogers Brubaker), UCLA ($6,000)

2014-15          

  • Marvin Hoffenberg Research Fellow, Center for American Politics and Public Policy, UCLA

2014-19          

  • Eugene R. Cota Robles Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCLA

2010-11          

  • Graduate Fellowship, Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia ($10,000)

2006-10               

  • Charles A. Dana Scholar, St. Lawrence University

  • Alpha Kappa Delta (Sociology Honor Society), St. Lawrence University

  • St. Lawrence Football Ironman Award Recipient, St. Lawrence University

  • Ronald E. McNair Scholar, U.S. Department of Education

  • Bradley Evers Outstanding First-Year Student Award, St. Lawrence University

  • Presidential Diversity Scholarship, St. Lawrence University ($80,000)