2021

  • Faculty Foundation Grant, The Evergreen State College (to work on my book Music at the Threshold)

2018

  • Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to participate in the Arabic Music Retreat at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts)

2016

  • Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to work on my book Music at the Threshold)

2015

  • Faculty Foundation Grant, The Evergreen State College (to conduct fieldwork in Indonesia)
  • International Gugak Institute, Seoul, South Korea (to attend the institute and study the haegum)

2012

  • Winner of the Alan P. Merriam Prize for Outstanding Book in Ethnomusicology, awarded for Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man, co-authored with Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire, Oxford University Press.
  • Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to work on my book Music at the Threshold)

2009

  • Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to work on my book Music at the Threshold)

2006

  • Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to work on my book Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song-Man, later published in 2011 by Oxford)

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
  • Nehamer Scholarship, University of Washington

1978

  • Educational Fee Grant, University of California