GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS

Florida Atlantic University Presidential Award for Outstanding Faculty-Led Community Engagement for Engaged Teaching. 2020.

Engaged Research Project Award, from Community Engagement Initiative at Florida Atlantic University for “Refugee Communities in Iceland” research project travel.  2020.

John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African-American History and Culture at Duke University Travel Grant, for “American Mosques” research project. Summer 2019.

Peace, Justice and Human Rights Research Grant, FAU, for “American Mosques” research project.  Summer 2019.

Summer Undergraduate Research Faculty Award from Florida Atlantic University, for “American Mosques” research project travel.  2018 and 2019.

Engaged Research Project Award, from Community Engagement Initiative at Florida Atlantic University for “American Mosques” research project travel.  2018 and 2019.

Life-Long Learning Institute of Florida Atlantic University Faculty Research Award, for “American Mosques” research project travel, 2018 and 2019.

Faculty Development Grant, Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University, for “American Mosques” research project travel, 2017, 2018, and 2019.

Office of Undergraduate Research Initiative grant, Florida Atlantic University, for “American Mosques” research project travel. Spring 2017.

Wilkes Honors College nominee for Florida Atlantic University Distinguished Teacher of the Year. Spring 2017.

Faculty Research Mentoring Award from the Division of Research, Florida Atlantic University. Spring  2016.

Wilkes Honors College nominee for the Florida Atlantic University Distinguished Mentor of the Year Award: Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Inquiry Mentorship. Spring 2016.

Faculty Development Grant, Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University, for organizing an Anthropology Colloquium Series to bring anthropology speakers to the campus. Spring 2016.

Smith Innovation Fund grant, awarded in support of “The Thesis Game: Gaming and Learning” project. Summer 2015.

Faculty Development Grant, Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University, for organizing an Anthropology Colloquium Series to bring anthropology speakers to the campus. Spring 2015.

Florida Atlantic University 2014 Faculty Research Seed Grant Award, for “American Mosques: An Ethnohistorical Study” research project. 2014-2015.

Faculty Development Grant, Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University, for “Women Scholars of Islam in Ladakh, India” research project. May/June 2012.

Grant for Asian Studies, funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language, for development of new course titled “Honors Islam in Asia” as part of Florida Atlantic University’s Asian Studies curriculum development.  Fall 2010.

National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for participation in Summer Short Courses on Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology (SCRM) Course on Geospatial Analysis in Anthropology.  August 2010.

Bradford-Ingalls Foundation Grant for development of Anthropology Lab at Wilkes Honors College, FAU. 2009-2010.

Florida Atlantic University Creative Scholar of the Year Award, 2008-2009.

Library of Congress (LOC) Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship for research in the library’s Asian Division collections. June 2008.

Social Science Research Council (SSRC) travel grant to attend the international conference on "Inter-Asian Connections" in Dubai, UAE. February 2008.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Contemplative Practices Fellowship for “Ethnomathematics” research project with Dr. Terje Hoim. 2007-2008.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) travel grant for participation in Contemplative Practices Seminar. October 2007.

Wilkes Honors College nominee for the Florida Atlantic University Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award: Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. 2006-2007.

Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for Research in Asian History from the American Historical Association (AHA), for research project titled “A Woman’s Place in Islam: Women’s Mosques in Asian Muslim Communities”. 2006-2007.

Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Grant for “Ethnomathematics” project with Dr. Terje Hoim.  2006-2007.

Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant (Florida Atlantic University), for project titled “A Woman’s Place in Islam: An Ethnographic Film about Women’s Mosques in Asian Muslim Communities”. 2006-2007.

Asia Regional Policy Symposium Grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholar’s Kennan Institute, April 2005. 

Writing Across the Curriculum Development Grant from Florida Atlantic University for course titled “Writing about Culture and Fiction”. 2005.

Penfield Dissertation Fellowship (University of Pennsylvania), for Ph.D. Dissertation project titled “Global Memories, Local Accounts: Tracing a History of Regional Trade Networks in Ladakh, 1920-47”. Two separate awards for 1999-2000 and 2000-2001.

Departmental Field Funds Award from Department of Anthropology (University of Pennsylvania), for project titled “Local History in Ladakh, India”. Summer 1998.

United States Department of Education Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship for the study of the Hindi language.  1996-1997.