RESEARCH GRANTS
2020-2025: “Creating Safer Space: Strengthening Civilian Protection Amidst Violent Conflict” (Co-PI), UK Research and Innovation
2023-2027: Building the Southeast Asian Consortium at SUNY and CUNY (Co-Organizer), Henry Luce Foundation
2024-25: Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Research Award
2020-21: Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Research Award
2020: Online Learning Initiative Grant, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York
2019-20: Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Research Award
2018: American Association of Geographers (AAG) Dissertation Research Award
2018: Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDFR)
2018: UCLA International Institute International Dissertation Research
2017: National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI)
2017: UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative / Mellon Foundation Summer Research Grant
2016: International Peace Research Association Peace Research Grant
2016: UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative / Mellon Foundation Summer Research Grant
2014: UCLA Geography Helin Research Grant
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2023: CUNY Henry Wasser Award for Outstanding Research
2022: Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, CUNY College of Staten Island
2017: UCLA Geography, Nominee, Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2016: UCLA GradSlam, Finalist
FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS
2023: CUNY Gittell Public Scholar Book Writing Fellowship
2023-24: Career Success Faculty Fellow, CUNY
2023-24: Center for Place, Culture and Politics, The City University of New York-Graduate Center
2021-22: Andrew W. Mellon Transformative Learning in the Humanities Faculty Fellow, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2021-22: Social Practice Faculty Fellow, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2020-21: Visiting Scholar, Center for International Human Rights, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
2019-20: Center for Place, Culture and Politics, The City University of New York-Graduate Center
SUMMER INSTITUTES AND WORKSHOP GRANTS
2017: Urban Humanities Initiative, UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Design (AUD), Los Angeles, California
2015: Institute of Geographies of Justice, Antipode Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa
2011: Ethics of Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster DNA Identification, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2011: Advancing the New Machine: Human Rights and Technology, UC Berkeley Human Rights Center, Berkeley, California
2010: Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, UC Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center and East-West Foundation, Bali, Indonesia
ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS
2015: UCLA Graduate Student Research Mentorship (GSRM)
2013: UCLA Geography Graduate Fellowship
2009 – 2011: The Rotary Foundation Rotary Peace Fellowship
1996-2001: Filipino-American Heritage Association, Inc. (FAHA) Undergraduate Scholarship
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