Urban Specialist and China Scholar

Grants and Fellowships


Teachers Workshop Grant, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities ($6,000), 2006
Scholarship Enhancement Award ($5,000), College of Humanities and Sciences, VCU, 2006
Fellow, Public Intellectuals Program, National Committee on US-China Relations, 2005-2007
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development/University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (Co-PI, $40,000), 2001
Geography and Regional Science Program, National Science Foundation ($104,342), 1999-2002
Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship ($52,600), U.S. Department of Education, 1998-1999
Research Planning Grant ($18,000), National Science Foundation, 1997-1998
Grant-in-Aid ($5,000), Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), 1997
Brookings Research Fellowship, Brookings Institution, 1993-1994
Louis Bevier University Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1992-1993
Graduate Excellence Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1989-1991

Awards and Nominations


Faculty Mentoring Award, Instructional Development Center, VCU, 2004
President’s Recognition for Outstanding Service to ACSP for the Global Planning Educators’ Interest Group, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, November 2001
Department Nomination, College of Humanities and Sciences Distinguished Scholar Award, VCU, 2000
Faculty Development Award, College of Humanities and Sciences, VCU, 1996