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