Scripps College Research Grant for the study of the Thai language, in preparation for a sabbatical project in Chiang Mai. 2014-15.

Scripps College Research Grant for continued work on the translation into French of the grammar of Tinrin, an endangered language of New Caledonia. 2013-14.

Scripps College Research Grant for the translation into French of the grammar of Tinrin, an endangered language of New Caledonia. 2012-13.

Three-month Research Fellowship at the Institute of Comparative Cultures of the Tokyo Joshi Daigaku University for research on the Tinrin language. Fall 2012

Scripps College Research Grant for collaborative work on an English and French dictionary for the endangered Tinrin and Neku languages of New Caledonia. 2011-12.

Scripps College Research Grant for attending an intensive advanced beginning Mandarin language program in Shanghai, China, and for attending a workshop on Japanese kyogen in Tokyo. 2010-11.

Scripps College Research Grant for attending a month-long intensive intermediate beginning Mandarin language program in Shanghai, China. 2009-10.

Scripps College Research Grant for attending a month-long intensive beginning Mandarin language program in Shanghai, China. 2008-09.

Scripps College Research Grant for attending the Université d’été at the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris workshops entitled “Internet au service du FOS” and “Créer des ressources multimedia.” 2007-08.

Scripps Faculty Research grant in support of research on Chinese comedy. 2006-07.

Mellon Foundation Grant for the manuscript preparation of the publication 100 Games and Activities for the Elementary Foreign language Classroom. 2005.

Scripps College Research Grant for attending the Université d’été at the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris workshop entitled “Comprendre le monde des affaires”. 2005-06

R. Stanton Avery Foundation and California Institute of Technology Grant for research on Chinese Masters Track and Field. China, 2004-2005.

Scripps Faculty Research grant in support of my appointment as General Editor of The Encyclopedia of World Writers to 1800 – Masters and Masterpieces, published by Facts on File, 2004-2005.

Scripps Faculty Research grant for writing a generally accessible grammar of the Tinrin language in French, based on Midori Osumi’s work on Tinrin. 2002-03.

Scripps College Grant in support of a sabbatical research project on comparative study of French farce and Japanese kyoogen in Tokyo, Japan. 2000-02.

Six-month Research Fellowship at the Institute of Comparative Cultures of the Tokyo Joshi Daigaku University for research on Japanese kyoogen and French farce. Tokyo, Japan. 2000-01.

Scripps College Research Grant for attending the Université d’été at Paris’ workshop entitled Former à l’Union Européenne. 1999-00.

European Union Center of California Curriculum Development Award for the creation of a course on the European Union seen from a French perspective. 1999.

Scripps College Research Grant for research on the visualization of theatrical verbality in sixteenth-century Dutch & Flemish painting. 1998-99.

Scripps College Research Grant for attending the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris workshop entitled S’initier au multimédia pour l’enseignement du français langue étrangère. 1997-98.

Mellon foundation Grant for participation in the three-day Student-based Learning workshop at Harvey Mudd College. 1997.

Scripps College Research Grant for the writing of an article on Intertexts between Renaissance farce and contemporary engravers. 1996-97

Mellon Foundation Grant for participation in a Foreign Language & Technology workshop at Middlebury College. 1997

Scripps College Research Grant for the study of parallels between medieval French farce and Japanese Kyogen. 1995-96.

University of Maryland at College Park grant for participation in a week-long workshop and conference entitled Business Culture expanded: from Commercial French to Legal French. 1995.

United States Department of Education Grant “Strengthening Women’s Opportunities within America’s Economic Environment” for the development of a joint French/IR course. 1995.

Mellon Foundation Professional Development Grant for the creation of a Medieval French course incorporating computer-assisted instruction in Old French. 1994.

Scripps College Faculty Summer Research Grant for attending two Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris workshops for the development of a new French course entitled “The French Business World and its Language”. 1994.

Japanese Government Grant for the delivery of the paper “Medieval French Farce and artistic parallels” at the Kanagawa University in Yokohama, Japan. 1993.

Athwin Foundation Faculty Development Grant for research on the relationships between the graphic arts and cartography in the Northern Renaissance. 1993-94.

Scripps College Sabbatical Research Fellowship for the preparation of a volume of translations in English of a selection of medieval French farce plays. 1992-93.

Scripps College Faculty Summer Research Grant for the presentation of a paper entitled “Spectacle cadavérique ou les images anatomiques de Vésale comme paradrame farcesque” at the VIIe Colloque de la Sociéte Internationale pour l’Etude du Théâtre Médiéval. Gerona, Spain, 1992.

Irvine Foundation Faculty Development Grant for attending the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris workshop “Le point sur l’actualite politique, economique et sociale”. 1991.

Humanities Course Development Grant for the reparation of a new course entitled “Northern Renaissance Humanism and its medieval Models: Reversal as a Condition of Progress.” 1990.

Irvine Foundation Grant for research on the generic definition of farce and its links with the Feast of Fools. 1990.

Scripps College Faculty Summer Research Grant for research on the relationship between Versalius’ anatomical figures and farce. 1989.

Stevenson Foundation Research Grant for research pertaining to Hieronymus Bosch’s relationship with the comic drama of his time. 1988.

Scripps College Faculty Summer Research Grant for research pertaining to Pieter Bruegel’s relationship with the comic drama of his time. 1987.

University of California Regents’ Dissertation Fellowship: grant for final stages of Doctoral Dissertation. Awarded Fall 1984.

Up With People scholarship for year-long travel promoting cultural exchange. Duties: M.C., foreign language consultant and public relations spokesman during a 10-country tour including Europe, Morocco and the U.S.A. 1974-75.

Harvard University Track and Field Scholarship. Necessarily declined due to American Field Service’s “mandatory homecoming” rule. 1969-70.

American Field Service scholarship for yearlong student exchange from Antwerp, Belgium to Swea City, Iowa. 1968-69.