Sandra Chung

Honors and Awards Since 1990


Honors

2022 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2016-17 51st Faculty Research Lecture, University of California, Santa Cruz, Feb 7, 2017
2012 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2011-14 Gary D. Licker Memorial Chair of Cowell College, UCSC
2011 President, Linguistic Society of America
2009 [co-recipient with Dr. Elizabeth D. Rechebei] Governor's Humanities Award for Preserving Traditional Cultural Practices, U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
2007 Fellow, Linguistic Society of America

Grants and Fellowships

2013-16 National Science Foundation Project BCS-1251429, 'The Real-Time Grammar of Chamorro WH-Dependencies' [co-PI with Matthew Wagers]
2010 Lansdowne Scholar, University of Victoria, Canada [March]
2008-11 National Science Foundation Project BCS-0753240, 'Collaborative Research: Chamorro' (linked to a project awarded to the NMI Council for the Humanities) [view the project description here]
2003 Visiting Erskine Fellowship, Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand [July-August]
2002-05 National Science Foundation Project BCS01-31767, 'Existentials at the Interface' (co-PI with James McCloskey).
1994 Fulbright Scholar (NZ-US Educational Foundation), Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Waikato, New Zealand [June-August]

Teaching Awards

2002-03 Excellence in Teaching Award, Academic Senate Committee on Teaching
1995-96 Honorable Mention, Excellence in Teaching Award, Academic Senate Committee on Teaching
1992-93 Innovations in Teaching Award, Academic Senate Committee on Teaching and Center for Teaching (co-recipient with Kathy Foley)