Selected Awards

NATIONAL ACADEMIC AWARDS:

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:

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)