Recipient of a grant for an oral-history research project, "Sarawak's Economic Development Since Malaysia: A Case Study of 1968 Graduates from Lawas Government Secondary School," funded by the Coalition of Christian Colleges & Universities Mini-Grant Program (2008). Awarded a U.S. Fulbright Scholar Grant to Sarawak, Malaysia (2007).

Publications include: "Sarawaks Economic Development Since Joining Malaysia: A Case Study of 1966-1968 Students at Lawas Government Secondary School," for the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Malaysia, Sarawak (forthcoming); "A Three-Generational Perspective on Structural Change and Sarawak Families," in For Better or For Worse, Marriage and Family Life in Sarawak(forthcoming); "Structural Transformation and Rural Development in Sarawak, Malaysia, 1963-2006," in Sarawak Museum Journal (April 2008); co-author with Richard Dadzie, of "Mercantilism as the Prevailing Paradigm in Malaysian Economics," an essay published as a working paper, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Malaysia, Sarawak (UNIMAS), May 2007, and submitted for publication to the Journal of the Faculty of Economics and Business, (UNIMAS). More than 30 articles and reports published by international organizations including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Provided consulting services in forensic economics on six legal cases in Washington State (2007-08); Memberships include Northwest Economics Association and Northwest International Education Association.

Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Visiting Professor, Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing, China (1998 99).