2013, 2012, 2010 Vancouver Island University Research and Scholarly Activity Grant

2007 Malaspina Internationalizing the Curriculum Grant

2006 Malaspina Research and Scholarly Activity Grant: Millennium Cross, 

Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

2005 MUC/SSHRC Capacity Building Grant: Millennium Cross, 

Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

2005 International Education Grant: Fieldschool New Zealand, Cook Islands 

2002 SSHRC Seed Grant: Indianess across Worlds

2002 St. Thomas Research Grant: Indianess across Worlds 

1995-1999 Fellowship - Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes: Female Engineers, Identity and Social Change in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

1996 Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes Research Grant: Film Project on Aegean-Macedonian Diaspora

1994-1995 LSE Geography and Anthropology Research Division Research Grant: Reproduction and Sexuality, Skopska Crna Gora

1994-1995 German Research Council (DAAD) Grant: Macedonia’s Changing Society

1992-1993 Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes Research Grant: Gender Identity in Papua New Guinea

1988-1992 Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes University Scholarship for Heidelberg and Mainz

1986-1988 Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes - Full Scholarship to the United World College of the Pacific, Lester B. Pearson