Trustees Teaching Award (TTA), Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (Indiana University Bloomington), 2003-2004
Indiana University TERA Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (Teaching Award), Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (Indiana University Bloomington), 1998-1999
UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship (Linguistics), UC President Office, 1992-1993
International Cultural Society of Korea Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Int'l Cultural Society of Korea (now absorbed into Korea Foundation), 1989-1989
Magma Cum Laude, University of California at Los Angeles, 1981
Honors in Linguistics (Linguistics), Dept. of Linguistics (University of California at Los Angeles), 1981