2025

• Honourable Mention, International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance best article competition (for “Vernacular Catholicism in Ireland: The Keening Woman” in Religions 15/879: 1-14. Special issue, Musicology of Religion: Selected Papers on Religion and Music. [co-written with Lillis Ó Laoire].
• Sponsored Research Award for faculty summer funding to work on my next project, a comprehensive bilingual songbook for the residents of Tory Island, off the north coast of Donegal, Ireland. [with Lillis Ó Laoire and Brian Ó Domhnaill]

2023

• Helen Roberts Prize for Most Significant Article Published in the Field of Ethnomusicology for “Poetry Writing as Transgressive Ethnography,” published in Ethnomusicology 66/3: 361-377 (2022).
• Honourable Mention, Best Article, International Council for Traditions in Music and Dance for “Poetry Writing as Transgressive Ethnography,” published in Ethnomusicology 66/3: 361-377 (2022).

2021

• Faculty Foundation Grant, The Evergreen State College (to work on my book Music at the Threshold)

2018

• Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to participate in the Arabic Music Retreat at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts)

2016

• Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to work on my book Music at the Threshold)

2015

• Faculty Foundation Grant, The Evergreen State College (to conduct fieldwork in Indonesia)
• International Gugak Institute, Seoul, South Korea (to study Korean music)

2012

• Winner of the Alan P. Merriam Prize for Outstanding Book in Ethnomusicology, awarded for Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man, co-authored with Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire, Oxford University Press.
• Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to work on my book Music at the Threshold)

2009

• Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to work on my book Music at the Threshold)

2006

• Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to work on my book Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song-Man, later published in 2011 by Oxford)

2000

• Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, The Evergreen State College (to complete transcriptions of the songs, stories and anecdotes of the Irish singer Joe Heaney)

1989

• Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Washington (to complete my dissertation on Indonesian music)

1988

• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Award for research in Indonesia

1987

• C.O.T.I. Award to study Advanced Indonesian at IKIP University, Malang, East Java, Indonesia

1986

• F.L.A.S. Award to study Intermediate Indonesian at Northern Illinois University (Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute)

1985

• Tuition Award to Study Beginning Indonesian at the University of Michigan (Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute)

1984

• Boeing Award for Excellence, University of Washington
• Nehamer Scholarship, University of Washington