Member of the National Institute of Mental Health Group on Culture and Diagnosis (Cultural Advisers on DSM-IV), January 1992-Present.
Fellow of the American Anthropological Association (For Significant Scholarly Contributions to Anthropology), 1991-Present.
Selected for Who's Who In America (West Edition, 1994-Present).
University of Hawaii - West Oahu Travel Grant to co-chair a workshop at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Chicago, Illinois, May 2000.
Invited Speaker at the Transcultural Psychiatry Symposium, World Congress of Psychiatry, Annual Meeting of the World Psychiatric Association, Hamburg, Germany, August 1999.
Travel Grant from the University of Hawaii Research Council to attend the World Congress of Psychiatry, Hamburg, Germany, August 1999.
Invited Speaker and Honorarium from the Templeton Foundation for presenting a paper at the Conference on Science and Religion in Multi-Cultural Perspective, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, February 1999.
Invited Speaker at the Second Pan Asia-Pacific Conference on Mental Health, Beijing, China, October 1998.
Travel Grant from the University of Hawaii Research Council to attend the Second Pan Asia-Pacific Conference on Mental Health, Beijing, China, October 1998.
Travel Grant and Honorarium from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor to present a series of three lectures to the Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, Anthropology and the School of Social Work, March 1998.
Invited Speaker at the International Symposium on Cultural Psychiatry, Meeting of the World Psychiatric Association, Transcultural Psychiatry Section, Rome, Italy, October 1997.
Travel Grant from the University of Hawaii Research Council to attend the International Symposium on Cultural Psychiatry, World Psychiatric Association, Rome, Italy, October 1997.
Travel Grant from the University of Hawaii Research Council to attend the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, University of California, Berkeley, March 1997.
Invited Speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Hawaii Psychological Association, Honolulu, October, 1996.
University of Hawaii - West Oahu Travel Grant to present a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, University of California, Berkeley, March, 1995.
University of Hawaii - West Oahu Travel Grant to present a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, Arizona State University, Tempe, March, 1994.
Volney Stefflre Award for the Best Paper in the Field of Anthropology of Consciousness, 1993.
Invited Speaker at the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 1991.
Travel Grant and Honorarium from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to present a paper at the Dissociation Workshop of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network for Mind-Body Interactions, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, October 1991.
Harvard University Dissertation Fellowship, 1990-91.
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1989-90.
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1986-89.
Harvard University Graduate Fellowship, 1985-91.
University of Hawaii Graduate Fellowship, 1983-85.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1983.
High Honors in Philosophy, 1983.
Chancellor's Award for Academic Excellence (Top 20 Undergraduates), 1983.