2016. Research Paper Award. American Sociological Association's Asia and Asian America Section.
2016-2018. Korean Studies Promotion Service. Co-PI (PI, Sungkyun Lee, Co-PI: ChangHwan Kim, Hyunjoon Park, Soo-yong Byun, and KwangYeong Shin) "Education and Social Mobility in Korea." ($136,000 = 150 million Korean won)
2015-2016. General Faculty Research Fund, University of Kansas. "Labor Market Inequality in South Korea." ($15,346)
2015. Korea Foundation. Conference Grant for the 4th Annual Conference of Association of Korean Sociologists in America ($5,000).
2014-2015. Principal Investigator (Co-PI: Christopher R. Tamborini at SSA, Co-PI: Arthur Sakamoto at Texas A&M). The Spencer Foundation (#201400077: $50,000). "Higher Education, Long-term Earnings, and Opportunity Cost."
2013-2015. Principal Investigator (Co-I: Arthur Sakamoto at Texas A&M, Significant Contributor: Christopher R. Tamborini at SSA). The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the NIH (1R03HD073464-01A1: $163,602). "Demographic and Educational Effects on Long-Term Earnings."
2012. Article Award. Academic Conference Using Korea Census Microdata. Statistics Korea.
2012. The Early Career Scholarship Award. The Midwest Sociological Society.
2011. Outstanding Article Award. American Sociological Association's Poverty, Inequality and Mobility Section.
2010-2011. New Faculty General Research Grant. University of Kansas ($8,000)
Sakamoto, Arthur, ChangHwan Kim, and Isao Takei. 2013. "Moving out of the Margins and into the Mainstream: The Demographics of Asian Americans in the New South." Pp.131-164 in Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South, edited by Khyati Y. Joshi. University of Illinois Press.
Sakamoto, Arthur, ChangHwan Kim, and Isao Takei. 2011. "The Japanese American Family." Pp. 252-76 in Ethnic Families in America: Patterns and Variations (5th Edition) eds by R. Wright, Jr., C.H. Mindel, T. Van Tran, and R. W. Habenstein. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
