• PI for Funding, The Africa Initiative Pilot Grant Program, in partnership with the Institute for Public Health and the McDonnell International Scholars Academy, Washington University. Research at University of Ghana entitled: Health Literacy and Linguistic Diversity during COVID-19 in Ghana. Summer, 2021.
  • Co-PI Funding/Honorarium for STARTALK 2021, sponsored by the President of the United States National Security Language Initiative (NSLI). The initiative seeks to expand and improve the teaching and learning of strategically important world languages that are not now widely taught in the US. Other programs under the NSLI umbrella include Title VI/Fulbright Hays programs of the US Department of Education and The National Security Education program of the National Defense University. STARTALK held at Webster University, June 2021, for teachers of Arabic and Persian.
  • Faculty Sponsor/Advisor for PhD Student External Funding:
    • 2019 National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations & National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, USA, Graduate Student Research Award, Recipient- PhD student Huan Liu
    • 2019 Educational Testing Service, USA, Grant for Doctoral Research in Second or Foreign Language Assessment 2018-, Princeton, NJ. Competitive bi-annual grant for PhD students to support their research, Recipient-PhD student Haley Dolosic
    • 2018 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, USA, Recipient of Student Stipend Award, Recipient- PhD student Huan Liu
  • Washington University College of Arts and Sciences Innovation Grant to develop a new, interdisciplinary and innovative course with high impact pedagogy for the Global Citizenship Program. Course entitled: Global Population on the Move: Refugees, Resettlement, Education, and Advocacy. Course will be housed in the International and Area Studies Program and cross listed in the Department of Education and will be offered to freshmen. Grant awarded to Cindy Brantmeier and Tabea Linhard. Summer 2018.
  • Recipient of Innovative BYOI Grant Competition from Washington University Office of Provost “Bring Your Own Idea” program. Proposal was for cross-school faculty collaborations and forums to discuss ideas about Refugee Lives: Local and Global. Won the grant with Professor Tabea Linhard, Romance Languages and Literatures.  Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018.
  • Funding/Honorarium for STARTALK Teacher Training 2013, sponsored by the President of the United States National Security Language Initiative (NSLI). The initiative seeks to expand and improve the teaching and learning of strategically important world languages that are not now widely taught in the US. Other programs under the NSLI umbrella include Title VI/Fulbright Hays programs of the US Department of Education and The National Security Education program of the National Defense University. STARTALK held at San Diego State University, June 2013, for teachers of Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Persian, and Turkish.
  • NENU Scholar Program, China. Invited by Vice President Zhang Shaojie, Northeast Normal University (NENU), Changchun, China, to be Scholar of NENU program for collaborating with research in China. Part of this funding involves giving a series of lectures to scholars of applied linguistics in China. Invitation initiated in Spring 2008. Full funding to host visiting scholars at Washington University paid for by the Consulate of China. Series of experiments started (spring 2011) with cooperating faculty at NENU, China.
  • Washington University Faculty Research Grant for research conducted in Argentina. Summer 2005.
  • Washington University Faculty Research Grant for research conducted in Costa Rica. Summer 2001.
  • US State Department/United States Information Agency Grant: Costa Rica Summer Fellowship, sponsored by Indiana University and United States Information Agency, Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano, San José, Costa Rica.  Summer 1997.
  • Annenberg Foundation Grant: Awarded to The Peddie School, New Jersey. I was the Spanish Acquisition Coordinator for this project. 1994-1995.
  • Partners for America Grant: Wisconsin/Nicaragua Partnership. Grant for creating a language center in Estelí, Nicaragua.1992.