Awards
SELECTED AWARDS, HONORS
- Fulbright Specialist, Selected by National Fulbright Commission’s World Learning Program, September 2023 (waiting first assignment, based on matching by request), award duration: 2023-26.
- Highly Accomplished Asian American Professional, recognition by County Government, Suffolk County New York, AAPI Heritage Month, Brookhaven, New York, May 2023
- Graduate School Fellow of the Year, 2021, Alumni Association, University of Louisville, KY, 2021.
- Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, State University of New York system, 2021
- Honorable Mention, Knowledge Advancement Award (Writing Support for International Graduate Students: Enhancing Transition and Success), Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2020.
- Best Book Award, won by Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Contested Modernities and Decolonial Visions, which included my chapter “Beyond Colonial Hegemonies: Scholarship and Teaching with Rhetorical Traditions from South Asia.” Eds. Romeo García, Damián Baca, 2019.
- Peter Elbow Writing Fellowship, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Summer 2018.
- Bill Godfrey Teaching Excellence Award (Humanities), College of Arts and Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, Apr. 2017.
- Spirit of Diversity Award, Career Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, Apr. 2016.
- John R. Binford Memorial Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies (conferred at the Doctoral Commencement Ceremony), University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, Dec. 2012.
- K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington D.C., Jan. 2012.
- Barbara Plattus Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching, English Depart., University of Louisville, KY, Apr. 2011.
- Alice Barns Award for Outstanding Achievements in MA, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, Dec. 2008.
- Nepal Vidya Bhusan, National Academic Excellence Gold Medal, Royal Palace, Kathmandu, Nepal, Mar. 2000.
