Grants and Awards

Awards and honors

2005	Visiting Research Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London, School of Modern Languages.
2001	Goddard Research Award for Junior Faculty, New York University.
1997	Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Pennsylvania.
1992	Fulbright Foreign Language and Area Studies Award, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
1991-1994	U.S. Department of Education, Bilingual Education Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania.

Grants

2006	International Collaborative Research Grant. Office of the Provost, Georgetown University, “Indigenous language politics and practices in Ecuador: A ten-year update.” Amount: $3,300.
2006	Summer Curriculum Grant. Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown University, “Curriculum Revision: Second language acquisition and Bilingualism” (with Alison Mackey). Amount: $9,000.
2005	Summer Academic Grant. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University. “Analyzing Saraguro mother-child narratives.” Amount: $9,000.
2005	Competitive Grant-in-Aid. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University. “Transcribing Saraguro mother-child narratives.” Amount: $1,950.
2002-2005	Co-principal Investigator. Office of English Language Acquisition, U.S. Department of Education. Title III Professional Development Training Grant (with Jeff Connor-Linton). Georgetown University. Amount: $1,300,000.
2001-2002	Planning Grant. National Science Foundation. Center for Culture, Education and Development (Member of Steering Committee), New York University. Amount: $150,000.
2000-2003	Principal Investigator. Major Research Grant, Swedish Central Bank. “Language ideologies, language use patterns, and education success among Chileans in Sweden and returnees in Chile.” Stockholm University: Centre for Research on Bilingualism. Amount: $450,000.
1998-2001	Principal Investigator. Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Language Affairs, Title VII Fellowship Grant. New York University. Amount: $350,000.
2000-2001	Co-Principal Investigator. School of Education Research Challenge Award, New York University (with Gigliana Melzi). “The role of diminutives in Latino children’s Spanish-language narratives.” Amount: $3,000.
1998-1999	Principal Investigator. School of Education Research Challenge Award. New York University. “Language revitalization in the Ecuadorian Andes: Book completion proposal.” Amount: $3,000.