Grants
 

May 2006	Numata Ryukoku University Scholarship Numata Foundation
December 2005	Smith Graduate Research Grant University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
December 2004	Student Research Grant Unno Charitable Fund
April 2004	Pluralism Project Summer Research Grant Project: "Changing Minds: Cooperation and Contestation at a Pan-Sectarian Buddhist Holiday"
December 2003	Student Research Grant Unno Charitable Fund
May 2003	Pluralism Project Summer Research Grant Project: "Mapping the Buddhist Community of Richmond, Virginia"
May 2002	Pluralism Project Summer Research Grant Project: "Buddhism in Western North Carolina"

Awards
 

November 2003

First Prize: Best Graduate Student Paper ("Aesthetics of American Zen: Tradition, Adaptation, and Innovation in the Rochester Zen Center Garden")  "Aesthetics of Nirvana Conference," University of North Carolina

Presentations
"Transforming the Menacing Fetus: Abortion and Other Pregnancy Loss Rituals in American Zen Centers."  At "American Academy of Religion Annual Conference," November 2006 (upcoming)

“There’s a Sucker Saved Every Minute, or, P.T. Barnum’s Theology of Humbug.” At "American Academy of Religion Annual Conference," November 20, 2005.

“Adapting Buddhist Abortion Rituals at the Rochester Zen Center.”  At "Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting." November 4, 2005.

"The Chalice and the Wheel: Encounters Between Buddhism and Unitarian-Universalism."  At "Unitarian-Universalist Buddhist Fellowship Convocation 2005," May 6, 2005.

"'All True Dharmas Have One Taste': Negotiating Inter-Buddhist Relations in the New South."  At "American Historical Association Annual Conference," January 7, 2005.

"'There's No Such Thing as Not My Buddhism': Cross-Sectarian Buddhist Hybridity in the American South."  At "American Academy of Religion Annual Conference," November 21, 2004.

"Changing Minds: Cooperation and Contestation at a Pan-Sectarian Buddhist Holiday."  At "The Pluralism Project at the American Academy of Religion, 2004," The Pluralism Project, November 19, 2004.

"Mapping Richmond's Buddhist Community." At "Religious Pluralism in North America: The Southern United States," The Pluralism Project, November 21, 2003

"Aesthetics of American Zen: Tradition, Adaptation, and Innovation in Rochester Zen Center Garden." At "The Aesthetics of Nirvana Conference," University of North Carolina, November 8, 2003

"Conflict, Personal Choices, and the Buddha Way." At "2003 Eastern Buddhist League Convention," Eastern Buddhist League, August 30, 2003