2017-present Principal Investigator on the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant “Expertise, Labour and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Construction, Law and Finance as Sites of Social Transformation”
2016-present Co-investigator on the SSHRC Insight Grant “Infrastructures of Democracy: Post-conflict transition and state building in Nepal’s agrarian districts”; PI Katharine Rankin, University of Toronto (Geography)
2014 The Hampton New Faculty Grant, UBC
2014 Wenner-Gren Foundation Post PhD Grant for the project “Restructuring Life: Citizenship, Territory and Religiosity in Nepal’s State of Transformation”
2013 Frederick W. Hilles Publication Grant for Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Across Himalayan Borders (University of Pennsylvania Press),Whitney Humanities Center, Yale
2012-2013 Grant for the conference Himalayan Connections: Disciplines, Geographies, Trajectories from the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, Yale University (with Andrew Quintman, Department of Religious Studies) – held in March 2013
2011 Grant for the project Cross-Border Ethnic Identities in the Himalayas: Cataloguing an Archive from the Griswold Research Fund, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University
2009-2012 British Academy UK-South Asia Partnership Award Inequality and Affirmative Action in South Asia: Current Experiences and Future Agendas in India and Nepal
2009 Grants for the project Thangmi Ritual Texts from the Frederick Williamson Fund for Himalayan Research and the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research
2008-2009 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)/Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2008-2009 American Association for University Women Dissertation Fellowship (declined)
2007 Cornell University Graduate School Sage Fellowship
2005-2007 Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship
2005-2006 Wenner-Gren Foundation Individual Research Grant (declined)
2005-2006 Council of American Overseas Resource Centers Multi-Country Research Fellowship (declined)
2001-2006 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in Anthropology
2003 Einaudi Center for International Studies China Travel Award, Cornell University
2002 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), Cornell University Tibetan Language
2001-2003 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), Cornell University Nepali Language
1999-2000 Fulbright Fellowship At-Large, Nepal
1997 Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University
1997 Magna Cum Laude, Brown University
1997 Bishop McVickar Prize for best honors thesis in Religious Studies, Brown University
1996 Bishop McVickar Prize for best student paper, Religious Studies, Brown University
1996 Office of International Programs Photo Competition Award, Brown University
1995 Faculty Scholar, Brown University