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