2020 UCHRI Residential Research Group at UCI on “Disciplining Diversity” for “Sikhs in California, Sikh Studies and the UC System.”
2018-19 UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship for “Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro-Asian Citizenship Formations and Global Uganda.”
2016-17 Academic Senate Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching, UC Merced
2016-17 Outstanding Women Faculty Award, Women’s Programs, Office of Student Life, UC Merced
2016-17 University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) Multi-Campus Faculty Working Group Award. “The Crisis of Diversity within the Multiversity: Rethinking African and Africana Studies at the University of California.”
2015-16 UC Merced Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship
2011-12 “Ethnicity in Africa” Dissertation Graduate Fellowship, Center for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Michigan and the Mellon-Sawyer Foundation
2008-10 Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
2008-10 National Science Foundation SBE Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
2005-09 Rackham Merit Fellowship (RMF), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor