Full Graduate Assistantship in the Hawai‘i English Language Program (HELP), Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa — 2012-2014
Department Merit Based Scholarship, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa — 2011-2013
Among the first participants in the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET Programme) to be selected for a fourth and fifth year of employment with their contracting organization, a distinction that is only possible in special cases when “the contracting organisation deems [the participant’s] work performance, level of experience, and ability to be of an exceptionally high standard” (JET Programme General Information Handbook; available online) — 2008 & 2009
Chosen to serve as the sole special coordinator for the Saga Prefecture Summer English Activities Seminar in Karatsu, Japan, a special seminar for training Japanese elementary school teachers to manage English activity classes, in response to new education legislation that was passed at the time — 2007
Founding member and resident of the Vista House at Furman University (MCF Vista House at Furman), with service learning as an instructor for the Greenville Literacy Association, teaching English as a second language to immigrants in Greenville, South Carolina — 2003-2004
Richard Schoonmaker 