2006

Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to work on my book "Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song-Man")

2000

Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to complete transcriptions of the songs, stories and anecdotes of the Irish singer Joe Heaney)

1989

Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Washington (to complete my dissertation on Indonesian music)

1988

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Award for doctoral research in Indonesia

1987

C.O.T.I. Award to study Advanced Indonesian at IKIP University, Malang, East Java, Indonesia

1986

F.L.A.S. Award to study Intermediate Indonesian at Northern Illinois University (Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute)

1985

Tuition Award to Study Beginning Indonesian at the University of Michigan (Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute)

1984

Boeing Award for Excellence, University of Washington

1984

Nehamer Scholarship, University of Washington

1978

Educational Fee Grant, University of California