Queens College (CUNY), New York, 1961-1965, East Asian Studies, B.A. Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude, departmental honors

Harvard University, 1965-1967, Regional Studies: East Asia, M.A.

Harvard University, 1967-1971, Chinese Intellectual History, Ph.D. doctoral dissertation: "Wu Ch'eng: A Neo-Confucian of the Yüan"

General examination fields: T'ang-Sung intellectual history, Chinese Buddhism (Six Dynasties period), Japanese Buddhism (Heian-Kamakura periods)

NDEA Title VI Undergraduate Award in Chinese, Columbia University, summer, 1964

NDEA Title VI Graduate Fellowships in Chinese, Harvard University, 1965-1971; Teaching Fellowship in General Education, Harvard, 1969-1970

Great Lakes Colleges Association Faculty Development Grant, National Archives, Washington, D.C., 1974

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, International Philosophers' Conference on Chu Hsi, University of Hawaii, 1982

Institute of Asian Studies Grant for seminar "China in Transition," Beijing, China, 1995

College of Wooster Faculty Development Grant; for seminar "Historic Cities of China," Beijing, Xi'an, Shanghai, China, 2000