ACHIEVEMENTS and Awards (SELECTED)

  • Finalist (“nominee”): State Literary Awards (Sri Lanka) 2023 for the Sinhala translation by Vidura Munasinghe.

  • Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, November-December, 2018

  • Finalist: IIE Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education (BSU nominee), 2018

  • Fellow, Melting Pot Program, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand, 2017

  • Fulbright Scholar, Myanmar, 2015-16

  • Fulbright Scholar, China, 2006-07

  • Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Spring, 2010

  • Erasmus Mundus Scholar, PAR Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, 2011

  • Erasmus Mundus Scholar, Centre for Economic and International Studies (CEIS), University of Rome, Italy, 2011

  • Malone Award for International Education, Ball State nominee with Dr. Wes Janz, 1999

  • Graham Foundation Fellowship, for the completion of the Book: Society and Space, 1997

  • Visiting Scholar, MIT, 1985

““The [CapAsia] project provides creative focus that is built on integrating South Asian world views into participant’s education; The focus on LEARNING FROM rather than LEARNING ABOUT as well as on learning from doing projects with host country peers rather than doing projects for them is refreshingly honest about where knowledge resides; It also models and reinforces a respectful intercultural attitude and global stance that’s sorely needed.””
— Fulbright-Hays Reviewer, 2004

Grants (SELECTED)

  • Consultant: [Im]perfect Places, RISE Project, EU grant to study Portuguese colonial urbanism, with partners from Angola, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Portugal (unsuccessful)

  • ASPiRE Grant for the Book Project: People’s Spaces, Ball State University, Summer 2014

  • CAP Immersive Learning Mini-Grant, to develop new connections with Bhutan, BSU, 2014-15

  • Provost's Grant, to develop new connections with Bhutan, BSU, 2015-16

  • Provost’s Grant, BSU, to develop new connections with Myanmar, 2013-14

  • Conference Grant, for the conference on The Transforming Asian City (With Tang), Research Committee, HKBU, 2007

  • Participant: FIPSE – EU-USA Cooperation in Higher Education and Training Grant, 2002-05

  • Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad, US Department of Education (DOE), for CapAsia V, 2010-11.

  • Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad, US Department of Education (DOE), for CapAsia V, 2007-08.

  • Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad, US Department of Education (DOE), for CapAsia V, 2004-05.

  • Faculty Research Grant Category II, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), with Tang Wing-Shing, for Comparative Urbanism in East and South Asia, 2007-09.

  • Elizabeth Chan Cheng E-Lay Geography Academic Seminar Series Grant, (With Tang), 2006-07

  • China Urban Research Center (CURS), for the special session on comparing urbanization in India and China (with Tang), CURS, HKBU, 2006-07

  • Korean-American Educational Commission: Travel Grant, 2006