Distinctions

Senior Short-Term Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies to carry out the project “Between Governmentality and Precarity: Girls’ Madrasas in UP Since 2017.” 2022-2024

Senior Short-Term Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies. (Included four months’ fieldwork in India over two summers.) 2012-2013

Invited Research Scholar at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. Presented a series of four seminars on the Ahl-i Sunnat wa Jamaat movement in 19th c. British India in the context of Islamic reform movements more broadly.

Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of American Religion, Princeton University. Postdoctoral research, with reference particularly to Muslim immigrant women in Queens, New York, at the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) mosque.

Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Awarded an American Fellowship by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation.

Junior Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies, for a year’s fieldwork in India.

International Doctoral Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, for 3 months’ field research in Pakistan.

Appointed Honorary President’s Fellow by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University.

Graduated from Delhi University in the First Division. Ranked 3rd in entire university in Sociology (Honors).