AWARDS & GRANTS (GU Summer Grants not included)
2007, Fall. Graduate School Senior Research Grant
2007, March. International Collaborative Research Grant ($4300) to conduct research with Dr. Boix from the Universitat de Barcelona on language and identity in Catalonia.
2007, February. Grant-in-aid ($2000),
2006, September. Proposal submitted to Carnegie Mellon Foundation for career development (not funded).
2006, Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize, given annually by the Modern Language Association to an outstanding scholarly book in the fields of language, culture, literacy, or literature to the volume Mind and Context in Adult Second Language Acquisition. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
2005, Graduate School Grant-in-Aid for subject compensation, The Latin Project.
2003, Graduate School Grant-in-Aid to complete Author and Subject Index of Mind and Context in Adult Second Language Acquisition.

2000, Graduate School Junior Faculty Research Fellowship .

1999, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education and Culture and United States' Universities. Project: 1999 Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish as L1 and L2 / Third Symposium on Hispanic Linguistics. $3,000 awarded (with Morales-Front).

1999, Graduate School Grant-in-Aid to conduct research on computer-delivered feedback.

1997, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education and Culture and United States' Universities. Project: Acquiring English as a foreign language in bilingual and monolingual contexts in Spain. $1,500 awarded.

1997, Graduate School Grant-in-Aid to finalize the database for project on bilingualism.

1992, Tinker Summer Research Fellowship. Project: A linguistic analysis of the uses of ser and estar by Catalan-Spanish bilinguals in Villafranco del Delta, Spain.

1992, Dissertation Research Grant and the Graduate College Thesis / Project Support Grant. University of Illinois Graduate College.

1990-1992, Appeared on the List of Excellent Teachers Ranked by their Students on five different occasions for both Italian and Spanish courses. The list includes all university faculty whose teaching evaluations fall within the highest 8%. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
1984, University Grant to attend a graduate course on Literary Criticism directed by Ricardo Gullón. Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander, Spain. August 1984.