2024 Pedagogical Research Grant for The Significance and Potential of Integrating “Role Language” Into Language Education: Through Practical Implementation in Advanced Japanese Classes, University of Toronto

2019 Faculty Distinction Award of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

2018 Faculty Distinction Award of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

National Research Centers/Foreign Language and Area Studies Grant with F. Nazikian for “Working at the Intersection of Language and Culture in the Digital Age: Social Network Approaches (SNA) to the Pedagogy of Language Teaching,” 2018

Consortium Workshop Award 2017-2018 with F. Nazikian for “Working at the Intersection of Language and Culture in the Digital Age: Social Network Approaches (SNA) to the Pedagogy of Language Teaching” 

National Research Centers Grant 2017-2018 with S. Eguchi for the development of fourth year Japanese course materials 

Language Resource Center Funds from Arts & Sciences at Columbia University, 2011-12 with F. Nazikian for “Global Issue Project”

Shirato Fund from the Donald Keene Center and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, 2008 with S. Eguchi, F. Nazikian, M. Nittono, K. Okamoto for the project to create Hiyaku: An Intermediate Japanese Course