International Awards
Award date: 2013 - 2014
Award amount: approx. $100,000
The Gates Cambridge Scholarship is a highly competitive fellowship awarded annually to fifty U.S. citizens and fifty international citizens (except the United Kingdom), which provides a full tuition scholarship and stipend to attend the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, for any graduate program (Master’s or PhD). I received this award in 2013, initially to complete my PhD in social anthropology at Cambridge, but I decided to pursue an MPhil instead.
Bill and Melinda Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)
Award date: 2017
Award amount: $17,380
The Social Science Research Council offers fellowship up to $20,000 USD to doctoral candidates pursuing degrees in the social sciences who hope to conduct independent research abroad. I received this award in 2017 to cover one year of my dissertation fieldwork in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship
Awarded: 2017
Award Amount: $33,828
The Fulbright-Hays DDRA funds doctoral research in countries other than the United States and Western Europe for up to twelve months. I was awarded this fellowship in 2017 to fund my doctoral research in Himachal Pradesh, India. Although I was successful in securing the fellowship, I was unable to accept the award because I had already been awarded another Fulbright grant, the Fulbright U.S. Student Research Award.
Fulbright U.S. Student Research Award
Awarded: 2017
Award Amount: approx. $14,500
The Fulbright International Institute of Education (IIE) awards research grants to U.S. citizens and permanent residents to pursue research in countries other than the U.S. and Western Europe, usually for a period of up to 9 months. Grantees must have a bachelor’s degree, but need not be currently enrolled in a graduate program in order to be awarded a grant. I received the Fulbright-IIE award to support part of my dissertation fieldwork in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
Awarded: 2018-2019
Award Amount: $13,830
The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research funds doctoral students pursuing anthropological research for their dissertations. I was awarded this grant to support part of my doctoral fieldwork in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Fulbright-Nehru English Teaching Assistantship
Awarded: 2012
Award Amount: approx. $14,500
The Fulbright International Institute of Education offers fellowship to U.S. citizens and permanent residents who would like to spend 9 months teaching English in countries other than Western Europe and the U.S. I was awarded the Fulbright ETA to teach English in India in 2012, where I was placed in a government school in New Delhi and taught in grades six through eight.
Critical Language Scholarship
Awarded: 2017
Award Amount: approx. $10,000
The Critical Language Scholarship is a program administered by the U.S. State Department which funds study abroad and language training for students seeking to learn a language currently identified as “essential to America’s engagement with the world.” I was awarded this scholarship to study Punjabi in the city of Chandigarh, India, through a language training program administered by the American Institute of Indian Studies (where I also studied Hindi in Jaipur, India, in 2010).
Award Date: 2020
Honorarium: $500
Selected as best graduate research paper in international competition by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.
John Gumperz Graduate Research Prize
Domestic Awards
UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship
Awarded: 2020-2021
Award Amount: $20,000 stipend + tuition and fees
The UCLA DYF is a competitive year-long dissertation write up fellowship for PhD students in their final year of graduate school. I was awarded the DYF to complete the writing of my dissertation during academic year 2020-21.
Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Award
Awarded: 2017
Award Amount: $10,000
The Young Graduate Award is given each year to one outstanding student in each of the four divisions of the College. In 2017, I was awarded the Young Graduate Award for the Division of Social Sciences. The award is offered to a student who shows extraordinary academic promise and has exhibited a record of service to the university.
Awarded: 2016-2017
Award Amount: $20,000 stipend plus tuition and fees
The UCLA GRM is a year-long fellowship to support the development of graduate student research and mentorship prior to advancement to candidacy. I was awarded the GRM under the mentorship of my doctoral advisor, Alessandro Duranti, in 2016-17 to complete applications for fellowships, preparation and completion of my doctoral qualifying examinations, the oral defense of my dissertation prospectus, and the submission of papers to conferences and proceedings.