Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award, Korean-American Educational Commission (2022 – 2023 Recipient)

Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute (2015 – 2016)

KSI-KEI Research Fellow, Joint appointment with the University of Southern California Korean Studies Institute (KSI) and the Korea Economic Institute (KEI) in Washington, D.C. (2006 – 2007)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Studies, University of Southern California (2005 – 2006)

Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley (2004 – 2005)

Institute of East Asian Studies Graduate Fellowship, UC Berkeley (2002 – 2004)

Korea Foundation Graduate Fellowship, UC Berkeley (2000 – 2002)

Chung Ju Yung Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University (1998 – 1999)

First Year SAIS Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University (1997 – 1998)

Maeil Business News Best Research Paper Award (1996)

Principal Investigator, Enhancing Maritime Alliance between the Republic of Korea and the United States and Beyond, funded by the Ministry of Defense (2020)

Principal Investigator, Official Development Assistance and Humanitarian Aid for Sustainable Peace, funded by the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University (2020)

Co-collaborator, Social Sciences Korea Grant on Global Environment Regimes and South Korea’s Policy Responses, funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (2012 – Present)

Principal Investigator, International Law and the Political Economy of Protectionism in the Energy Market, funded by the Future Energy Policy Institute (2018)

Principal Investigator, One Belt and One Road vs. the Indo-Pacific Strategy, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea (2018)

Principal Investigator, The New Vision and Future Strategy of the Overseas Korean Foundation, funded by the Overseas Korean Foundation (2018)

Principal Investigator, The International Politics of Energy: Fossil Fuel, Renewables and Nuclear Energy, funded by the Future Energy Policy Institute (2017)

Principal Investigator, New Industrial Policy and Governance in an Ear of New Protectionism, funded by the Korea Small Business Institute (2017)

Principal Investigator, Traditional and Non-traditional Security Threats from the Seas, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea (2014)

Principal Investigator, New Recruitment System of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, funded by the Korea National Diplomatic Academy (2011 – 2012)

Co-collaborator, World Class University Grant on Comparative Analysis of Institutional Isomorphism and Dimorphism in Various Modes of Governance, funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (2009 – 2010)

Principal Investigator, Evaluation of the Korea Foundation’s Organizational Performance, funded by the Korea Foundation (2009)

Co-collaborator, Asia’s New Institutional Architecture in Trade and Security in a Post-9/11 World, funded by the Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership (2005 – 2007)

Co-collaborator, Institution and Community Building in Northeast Asia, funded by the East Asia Foundation, Seoul, Korea (2005 – 2006)