AWARDS and HONORS 

• Honorable Mention, Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section (FTGS) Graduate Student Paper Award for “Unsilenced Voices of Comfort Women: The 2023 Court Decision to Deny State Immunity of Japan,” International Studies Association (ISA), 2024

• Nominee, 2023 University of Connecticut Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award

• 2025 Wood/Raith Living Trust Summer Fellowship ($5,000)                          

  - UConn: Summer 2025

• UConn Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Summer 2025 ($2,000)    

  - UConn: Summer 2025 

• The Howard L. Reiter Memorial Award ($500) 

  - UConn: Spring 2025    

• The Dr. Ilpyong Kim Fellowship ($5,000)

  - UConn: Fall 2024

• The J. Garry Clifford Graduate Fellowship Fund ($500)                                   

  - UConn: Spring 2024

• The Dr. Ilpyong Kim Fellowship ($4,000) 

  - UConn: Fall 2023

•  Comfort Women Scholarship ($6,000) - CARE [1]: Spring 2023

•  The Norman Kogan Fellowship ($500)                                       

  - UConn: Spring 2023

• The Howard L. Reiter Memorial Award ($500)                                   

  - UConn: Spring 2022

• SUNY Research Foundation Assistance Awards                        

  - UAlbany: Fall 2019 – Summer 2020

• Rockefeller Teaching Assistantship and Tuition Scholarship       

  - UAlbany: Fall 2018 – Spring 2019

• Yves-André Istel Fellowship     

  - NYU: Fall 2016 – Spring 2017

• The National Competition Awards for Korean Public Diplomacy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs  

  - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea: 2012

• Appointment as a Member of National Advisory Group for Public Diplomacy

  - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea: 2012 – 2013

  [1] Comfort Women Action for Redress and Education, https://comfortwomenaction.org/