Grants and prizes

External grants

2019-20 Social Science Research Council (SSRC)/Abe Fellowship, Brooklyn and Tokyo (USD 68,000)
2014-15 Japan Foundation Research Fellowship (JPY 5,500,000)
2011-12 Social Science Research Council (SSRC)/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship (PE11542),(JPY 5,574,500)
2010-11 Wenner-Gren Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship (USD40,000)
2007-08 Postdoctoral Associate, The Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University (USD 40,000, declined)
2007 Dissertation Workshop Fellowship on Market and Modernities in Asia, Asian Institute, University of Toronto, May (CAD 500)
2004-05 Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship (JPY 5,040,000)
2004 National Science Foundation (NSF) Ethnographic Research Training Grant (USD 5,000)
2002 Freeman Student Fellowship for Personalized Learning in Asia (USD 5,000)

2019-20 Supplementary Salary Fund, Office of the Provost, KU (USD 35,250)
2017-18 Sabbatical Leave, KU
2016 General Research Fund (#2301163), KU (USD 14,305)
2013-14 Level II Strategic Initiative Grant (#6633), Co-PI for “Kansas Anti-Human Trafficking and Slavery Initiative,” KU (USD 39,809)
2013 General Research Fund (#2301772), KU (USD 10,000)
2011 General Research Fund (#2301571), KU (USD 8,744)
2008 New Faculty General Research Fund (#2302172), KU (USD 8,000)
2007 George L. Beslow Graduate Fellowship for dissertation writing, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) (USD 5,000)
2005 Fellowship, Graduate College, UIUC (USD 5,000)

A finalist for 2017 Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize, Association of Feminist Anthropology in American Anthropological Association
2005 Bestor Prize for Best Graduate Paper, “Commodified Romance in a Tokyo Host Club,” Society for East Asian Anthropology
2003 First Place Prize for the presentation, 2nd Annual Anthropology Graduate Student Symposium, Anthropology, UIUC
2001 Victor Todd Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement, University of Oregon