Selected Awards

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC AWARDS:

2026[Japan] Foreign Minister’s Commendation for FY 2026 (Individuals)
2025-26John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
2018-19   ACLS Fellowship
2019Toshiba International Foundation grant for Sakuramotobō documents research
2011-12  Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship
2002Suntory Foundation Grant to defray publication expenses for State of War
2001-2NEH Fellowship for College Teachers
2001-2Fulbright Senior Scholar Award
2001-2Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship (declined)
1994-97Japanese Ministry of Education Fellowship
1989Phi Beta Kappa

 

INTRAMURAL AWARDS:

2024PIIRS Translation Grant for the Japanese translation of Kings in All but Name
2022Collaborative Teaching Grant with Megan Gilbert for "The Law in Action"
2021 Collaborative Teaching Grant with Soojung Han for “Medieval Asian Worlds”
2017-David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project in the Humanities Council grant
“The Story of Slag: Creating a Chronology of Copper Smelting for Japan 700-2000”
2017-18Old Dominion Faculty Fellow
2016UCHR&SS grant “Visualizing the Ōnin War (1467-77): Ten Years in Ten Minutes.”
2015-16Old Dominion Faculty Fellow
2010Bowdoin College Faculty Development Grant to defray publication expenses for From Sovereign to Symbol
2009Karofsky Faculty Encore Lecture, nominated by the 2010 Bowdoin Senior Class
2007-8Bowdoin Faculty Leave Fellowship
2000Fletcher Family Research Grant to defray publication expenses for State of War
1999-2005Freeman Fellowships
1997-98Dissertation Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center 
1997-98FLAS Fellowship
1991-94Full Tuition Fellowship, Stanford University

 

LANGUAGES

  • Japanese (fluent)
  • Proficiency in Classical Japanese and Classical Chinese (kanbun)
  • Paleography (ability to decipher handwritten Japanese documents and texts)