Daphne Lei | Honors and Awards

2019

UCI Humanities Center grant for “Performing Affective Borders” (Border and Belonging Series) ($250). UCI Humanities Center, UC Irvine, November, 2019.

2018

Illuminations, UC Irvine. “(I’m)Migrant Series.” 2018-2019.

Medical Humanities Grant for “From 626 to 949: Exploring Stigma, Mental Health, and Healing in Asian American Communities.” Medical Humanities, UC Irvine. April, 2018. 

2017

Medical Humanities Grant for "Thriving in Differences: An Interdisciplinary Conference on 'Strange' Body, Ethnicity, and Language." Medical Humanities, UC Irvine. April, 2017.

2016

Co-PI.  Medical Humanities Grant for "Sound, Movement, and Sensibility" Symposium. Medical Humanities, UC Irvine. October, 2016.

Tom Angell Fellowship (exceptional mentorship of graduate students). Graduate Division, UCI, 2016.

2012-2015

DECADE Mentor Graduate Diversity Award for "Dramatic Transformations"

2012

Cultural Diversity Research Grant

2010

CORCL Special Research Grant

2009

Pacific Rim Development Grant
University of California

2007

Conference Grant 
Center for Asian Studies, UCI
Asian Performance Colloquium, MRGIPC

2006

Single Investigator Innovation Grant
Council on Research, Computing and Library Resources (CORCLR), UCI

2005

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research
UROP, UCI

2000-2001

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
Drama Department, Stanford University

1997

Dissertation Fellowship 
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)

1995-1996

Arts First Council Grants
Harvard University

1995

Winner, Debut Panel Paper Competition
“Wang Zhaojun on the Border: Intercultural Conflict and the Objectification of Women in Pre-Modern Chinese Drama”
Association for Asian Performance (AAP)