Awards, Special Recognitions, and Honors

Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Academic Fellowship (2013)

*       Gold World Medal in History and Society for “The End/Beginning: Cambodia” as Writer/Narrator, New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards (2012)

*       Council on Foreign Relations Term-Member (2011-2016)

*       Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (2011-2016)

*       Fulbright Senior Specialist Awarded for the Institute of Security and International Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, December 2010.

*       AGD Prize Winner (RMB1,000) at the 4th Ditan International Conference on Infectious Diseases in Beijing, China, 15-18 July 2010.

*       Fulbright Senior Specialist Program Roster admission (2009-2014)

*       Top 10 papers in the Health & Economic Development category of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN.ORG), March 2010.

*       Top 10 papers in the Comparative Political Economy category of SSRN.ORG (June-August 2009)

*       Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) Fellowship (2009)

*       June Pallot Award 2008 for Best Article in the International Public Management Journal, Volume 10, (2007)

*       Dean’s Normative Time to Degree Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley (2005-2006)

*       Council of American Overseas Research Centers-funded Center for Khmer Studies Fellowship (2004)

*       Blakemore-Freeman Fellowship for Advanced Language Study in Cambodia (2003-2004)

*       Chancellor’s Opportunity Predoctoral Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley (2000-2003)

*       Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for the Study of Khmer at the Southeast Asia Summer Studies Institute (2001)

*       Center for Southeast Asian Studies Summer Grant, University of California, Berkeley (2001)

*       Ford Foundation-funded, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation-managed Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow (1995-1997)

*       Stevenson Fellow, Princeton University (1996-1997)

*       University Fellowship, Princeton University (1996-1997)

*       Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace Certificate of Appreciation for Service (1996)

*       Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Summer Internship Grant (1996)

*       Ronald E. McNair Scholar, University of California, Berkeley (1994-1995)

*       Asilomar Conference Scholarships, World Affairs Council of Northern California (1994 and 2001)

*       Ballard Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley (1995)

*       Douglas Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley (1994)

*                Ludwig von Mises Summer Institute Scholarship (1994, declined)

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