Honors and Awards

• 2021 Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, Rutgers University

• 2020 NEH Research Fellowship

• 2019 Book Prize in Humanities and Cultural Studies , Association for Asian American Studies

for the category of Media, Visual, and Performance Studies

• 2019 Irwin Lowens Book Award, Society for American Music

(yearly prize for the best book in the field of American music)

• 2018 Music in American Culture Prize, American Musicological Society

(for a book of exceptional merit that both illuminates some important aspect of the music of the United States and places that music in a rich cultural context)

• 2018 Certificate of Merit, Association for Recorded Sound Collections

for Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music

• 2018 Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award, Society for Music Theory

(chapter contributor)

• 2018 Outstanding Alumni Award, National Taiwan Normal University

• 2017 Pauline Alderman Award for Best Book, International Alliance for Women in Music

(chapter contributor)

• 2016 Publication Subvention Award, American Musicological Society

• 2012 Parsons Fellowship, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

• 2011 Dena Epstein Award, Music Library Association

• 2009 Irwin Lowens Article Award, Society for American Music

(yearly prize for the best article in the field of American music)

• 2004 NEH Research Fellowship

• 2003 ACLS Fellowship

Committee on Scholarly Communications with China, American Council of Learned Societies