Awards / Grants
2021
Ontario Arts Council Grant for Curatorial Projects: Indigenous and Culturally Diverse, Elusive Desires: Ness Lee & Florence Yee curated by Marissa Largo at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham, $25,000
Canada Council for the Arts Grant, Public Outreach component of the Arts Across Canada Program for Elusive Desires: Ness Lee & Florence Yee curated by Marissa Largo at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham, $27,000
2020
Ontario College of Art and Design Teaching Award For Continuing Studies and Non-Tenured Faculty.
SSHRC Research Development Fund Grant, NSCAD University, $3500
Ontario College of Art and Design University Teaching Award For Continuing Studies and Non-Tenured Faculty.
2019
Certificate of Excellence for advancing student success and engagement of the Filipino community in the field of culturally relevant curriculum development. Presented at the Filipino Heritage Month celebration at the Toronto Catholic District School Board. June 12, 2019.
Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (REAPA) special interest group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). This award recognizes a scholar whose dissertation has had a significant impact on our understanding of Asian American and/or Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in education
2018
Filipino Centre Toronto’s Rosalinda C. Javier Outstanding Student Award, Post-Secondary Graduate Category
Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
Award for Best Article (Graduate) from the Filipino Section of the Association for Asian American Studies for “A Country That Does Not Exist,” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas 1, no. 1-2 (2015): 108-130.
2017
OISE Academic Excellence Award
2016
University of Toronto, School of Graduate Studies Travel Grant
OISE Academic Excellence Award
2013
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
OISE Academic Excellence Award
OECTA Reverend J.H. Conway Memorial Scholarship for Post-Graduate Studies
The University of Toronto Student Engagement in the Arts Award
Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2012
Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2011
Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2009
Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2004
J.A. de Sève Graduate Fellowship, Concordia University