Fellowships and Awards

External awards

Fellowships

• National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Advanced Social Science Research in Japan, 2014. 

• Kluge Fellowship, 2013–2014, 2015.

• Japan Foundation Research Fellowship, 2011–2012.

• Social Science Research Council/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (SSRC/JSPS) Fellowship, 2007–2008.

Prizes and Awards

• Public-Facing Scholarship Award, Society for Music Theory, 2023, for "Abe Road: Kuwata Keisuke's Beatles Parody," SMT-V 8.1, 2022.

• Outstanding Publications Award, Society for Music Theory, 2022, for "We Gon’ Be Alright? The Ambiguities of Kendrick Lamar’s Protest Anthem," Music Theory Online 25/1, 2019. 

• Outstanding Publications Award, Society for Music Theory, Popular Music Interest Group, 2019, for "We Gon’ Be Alright? The Ambiguities of Kendrick Lamar’s Protest Anthem," Music Theory Online 25/1, 2019. 

• BFE Book Prize, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima, British Forum for Ethnomusicology, 2018.

• John Whitney Hall Book Prize, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima, Association for Asian Studies, 2017.

• Alan Merriam Prize (Honorable Mention), The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2016.

• Book Subvention Award, Society for Music Theory, for The Revolution Remixed: A Typology of Intertextuality in Protest Music, April 2015.

• Waterman Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology, Popular Music Section, “Music in Antinuclear Demonstrations,” Asia-Pacific Journal, 2014.

• Deborah Wong Research and Publication Award, Society for Ethnomusicology, for The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Music and the Antinuclear Movement Post-Fukushima Daiichi, 2013.

• Hewitt Pantaleoni Prize, MACSEM (Middle Atlantic Chapter of Society for Ethnomusicology), 2006.

Grants

• NEAC Japan Grant, Association for Asian Studies, 2021.

• Society for Music Theory Travel Grant, 2008.

• Social Science Research Council, Japan Studies Dissertation Workshop, 2007.

• Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant, 2007.

• Díaz-Ayala Travel Grant, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, 2007, Cuban music.

Internal awards (selected)

• Temple University, Humanities and Arts Program Award, 2016.

• Temple University, Internationalization Grant, 2016.

• Princeton University, Center for Human Values, 2015. 

• Barr Ferree Foundation Fund for Publications, 2014, 2015. 

• David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Fund, Council of the Humanities, Princeton University, 2010, for the development of a course on Japanese taiko.

• Princeton University, Program in Latin American Studies Faculty Research Grant, 2010, 2015.