Awards

Top Paper
  • Top Student Paper Award, the 71st International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Political Communication Division (First author, 2021)
  • Top Student Paper Award, the 71st ICA Conference, Communication & Technology Division (Co-author, 2021)
  • Top Student Paper Award, the 68th ICA Conference, Public Diplomacy Interest Group (Solo author, 2018)
  • Top Student Paper Award, the 68th ICA Conference, Visual Communication Studies (First author, 2018)
  • Top Paper Award in Open Call Competition, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Conference, Communication Theory & Methodology Division (Co-author, 2018)
Academic Awards
  • Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, Duke Kunshan University, 2023
  • Chevening Scholarship, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, £28,000 (2014)
Fellowships
  • International Institute Individual Fellowship, University of Michigan (2018)
  • Lieberthal-Rogel Travel and Research Fellowship, University of Michigan (2018)
Research and Travel Grants
  • Research Grant, Summer Research Scholars (SRS) program, Duke Kunshan University, ￥38,400, 2023
  • Research Grant, the Center for the Study of Contemporary China (CSCC), Duke Kunshan University, $2,000 (2022)
  • Research Grant, Wang-Cai and Synear Labs, ￥10,000 (2022)
  • Hou Tu Research Funding, Duke Kunshan University, ￥50,000 (2022-2023)
  • Kunshan Government Research Special Fund, ￥50,000 (2022-2024)
  • Research Grant, Summer Research Scholars program, Duke Kunshan University, ￥25,600 (2022)
  • Research Grant, the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at Duke Kunshan University, $2,000 (2021)
  • Research Grants, Duke Kunshan University, ￥70,000 (2021)
  • Graduate Student Research Grant, the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, University of Michigan, $2,500 (2019)
  • Graduate Travel Scholarship, University of Michigan, $800 (2019)
  • American Council of Learned Societies Predissertation-Summer Travel Grant, $5,000 (2018)
  • Graduate Travel Scholarship, University of Michigan, $1,500 (2018)
  • Rackham Conference Travel Grant, University of Michigan, $1,000 (2018)
  • Conference Travel Grant, Freie Universität Berlin, €1,300 (2018)
  • Volkswagen Foundation for Computational Method Workshop, €700 (2018)
  • Rackham Conference Travel Grant, University of Michigan, $800 (2017)