As a research development professional, I foster environments for scholarship to thrive.  I take a holistic approach to research development, working with faculty and graduate students from developing an idea to finding funding to disseminating their research in academic and public forms.  

Institutional Awards | UC Irvine

• American Council of Learned Societies, Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation New Professorship in Buddhist Studies, 3 year grant, 2017.
• Academy of Korean Studies, 5 year grant to establish Center for Critical Korean Studies (CCKS), 2016; 5 year grant to support CCKS, 2021.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Next Generation PhD Planning Grant, 2016.
• The Henry Luce Foundation, Humanities Out There Public Fellows graduate internship program, 2016.
• U.S. Department of Education, Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need, 3 year grant to support graduate fellowship in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 2015.
• U.S. Department of Education, Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships in Korean Language, 4 year grant, 2022.
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Sawyer Seminar on Documenting War, 2015; Sawyer Seminar on Suffering Well, 2019; Sawyer Seminar Black Reconstruction as Portal, 2021.
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Humanities Graduate Training, 5 year grant, 2015; 4 year grant, 2020.

Faculty and Graduate Student Grants

Individual proposal development consultations along with strategic and capacity-building activities have resulted in fellowships and grant awards, including:

• ACLS Collaborative Research Grant
• American Academy in Berlin Awards
• Fulbright Scholar Awards
• Getty Scholars Fellowships
• Guggenheim Fellowships
• Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton Fellowships
• Mellon Foundation New Directions Faculty Fellowships
• National Humanities Center Fellowships
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships
• Other NEH grants such as Preservation and Access, Summer Stipends, and Faculty Awards for HSIs