Princeton University 1996-2005
Lecturer & Quin Morton Fellow
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, & RESEARCH GRANTS
Phi Beta Kappa
New York Public Library Scholar (2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-2020)
American Councils Eastern Europe Research Fellow
U.S. Faculty Fulbright Fellow
IDEA Award for East European Studies, Critical Languages Institute Tempe, AZ
American Council of Learned Societies, East European Grant
Comparative Language Institute Grant
Quin Morton Fellowship, Princeton University
Princeton University Summer Research Grant
Committee for European Studies Research Fellow
Princeton Comparative Literature Research Grant
Princeton Department of French Studies Grant
Princeton GAA Summer Research Fellowship
Council on Regional Studies Summer Grant
French-Language Scholarship, Middlebury College
Doctoral Fellowship, Princeton University
Rotary Foundation International Ambassadorial Peace Scholarship (Northern Ireland)
TEACHING AWARDS
Outstanding Professor Award, California State University Dominguez Hills (2014)
Award for Excellence in Teaching, NYU (2009, 2008, 2007, 2006)
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 2006-2013
Associate Lecturer
With Former US Ambassador to Albania, Alexander Arvizu
California State University Dominguez Hills 2005-2019
Associate Professor or Literature and the Humanities
With Albania's leading novelist, Ismail Kadare
With students at Marin Barleti University (Guest lecturer)
KIMBERLY KALAJA
2019 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region II
Playwriting Workshop:
Making Something out of Nothing: Foolproof methods for stimulating ideas
FULBRIGHT YEAR in TIRANA, ALBANIA
Visiting Professor in the Department of English, University of Tirana