Rutgers Global China Office Grant to lecture on American Folklife for International Education at Jilin University, Changchun, Peoples Republic of China, May 2019.

Fulbright Senior Specialist Award to South Korea. Council for International Exchange of Scholars and the William J. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. To present lectures and lead seminars on American Studies at Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea, March 2007.

Fulbright Award to Norway. Council for the International Exchange of Scholars and the U.S.-Norway Fulbright Foundation for Educational Exchange. To teach American Studies at Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway, 2002-2003.

U.S. Speaker and Specialist Grant to the Philippines awarded by the U.S. Information Agency to consult with the faculty of the University of the Philippines to establish a program in American Studies, January 1998.

Travel Grant to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, awarded by the U.S. Information Agency to assist the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the West Indies to develop a curriculum of American Studies, September-October 1997.

Travel Grants to Haiti. Awarded by the Partners of the Americas, Washington, D.C. To conduct folklore fieldwork in August 1990; to conduct project feasibility studies in March 1993.

Fulbright Award to the Philippines. Council for International Exchange of Scholars and the Philippine-American Educational Foundation. To teach American literature at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, and to conduct folklore fieldwork in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. 1985-1986.