NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Fellowship Award

ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Award, as a 2000-2001
participant in the Research Program of the National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China

NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Stipend Award

First prize winner of the Ninth Literary Award of Taiwan's Central Daily, for the literary essay, “Chongchong Chongchong feifei” 蟲蟲蟲蟲飛飛 (Bug's Bug's Flying--A Chinese Mother's Ditty)

Three times nominee for the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize

Yale University Dissertation Fellowship