Recent Awards and Honors

Committee on Teaching Instructional Improvement Grant. University of California, Santa Cruz

Committee on Research (COR), Faculty Research Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz

Arts Division Committee on Research (ADCOR), Faculty Research Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz

Committee on Research (COR), Faculty Research Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz

Arts Division Committee on Research (ADCOR), Faculty Research Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz

Distinguished Teaching Award Nominee for 2001-02, University of Redlands, Redlands, California

Faculty Research Grant, University of Redlands, Redlands, California

Grant for conference travel, University of Redlands. College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago

Grant for conference travel, University of Redlands. Pacific Arts Association Conference, Chicago

Art History Department nomination for the Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Los Angeles

Teaching Fellowship (merit-based award), Art History Department, University of California, Los Angeles

Friends of Art History and Graduate Division, Travel Grant. Dissertation research. University of California, Los Angeles

Ralph C. Altman Award, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles. Dissertation research

Participant, “Teaching in the Multiethnic Classroom,” a workshop sponsored by the Ethnic-Gender Undergraduate Integration Project, Joint Advisory Committee on Multicultural Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Teaching Associate (merit-based award), Art History Department, University of California, Los Angeles

Edward Dickson Full Support Fellowships, University of California, Los Angeles

Field Expedition Team to document the Sixth Festival of Pacific Arts in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. World Arts and Cultures Program, University of California, Los Angeles

Travel Grant, Center for the Study of Women, University of California, Los Angeles
Teaching Assistantship (merit-based award), Art History Department, University of California, Los Angeles

P. F. Ferry Foundation Grant. Field research, Polynesia. La Jolla, California

Travel Grant. Field research. Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego

U.S. Russell Foundation Grant. Field research, Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico

Provost’s Honor List, Revelle College, University of California, San Diego