Grants & Awards

2024 :: Research Grant, Ancient India & Iran Trust, Cambridge, UK. To support my archival research on the history of Persian Purāṇas in early modern and colonial South Asia at the Ancient India & Iran Trust Library and the Cambridge University Library in Cambridge, UK.

2024 :: IASS Honorary Research Fellowship, International Association of Sanskrit Studies (IASS), Collège de France, Paris, France. To support my archival research and fieldwork in India and Nepal for a project focused on the history of Maithili chapbooks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

2024 :: Max Müller Memorial Fund, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. To organize a workshop on Nastaʿlīq calligraphy for students enrolled at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford.

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2023 :: Research Centre Grant, Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK. To support my research on the early print history of Maithili chapbooks in South Asia and to facilitate the dissemination of my research through peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

2023 :: San Francisco Center for the Book Scholarship, San Francisco Center for the Book, US. To participate in a workshop on the Korean textile art of "Bojagi" as part of the exhibition Paper is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures at the San Francisco Center for the Book, US.

2023 :: Max Müller Memorial Fund, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. To support workshops on the history of the book in South Asia and Indo-Persian calligraphy for students specializing in Classical Hindi Literature at Oxford.

2023 :: Senior Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, US. Awarded the status of Senior Fellow in recognition of training in critical bibliography and service to the Rare Book School.

2023 :: Symposium Funding, Programs Commitee, Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, US. To support a virtual roundtable entitled "Book-Objects at the Crossroads of Bibliography and Philology" that my colleague Jeremiah T. Coogan (Assistant Professor of New Testament, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, Berkeley) and I are organizing in summer 2023.

2021–24 :: Junior Research Fellowship, Christ Church, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. To support my research on the rise of manuscripts and scribal communities in South Asia.

2021 :: The Guild of Book Workers Scholarship, New York, US. To attend the first ever virtual Standards of Excellence in Hand Bookbinding Seminar and to contribute to the Guild's activities.

2021–22 :: UICB Director's Fellowship, Center for the Book, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. To support my training and research in Book Arts.

2021 :: Anderson Ranch—UI Center for the Book Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Colorado, US. To support my training in the art of printmaking.

2020–21 :: Windgate Fellowship, Center for the Book, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. To support my artistic practice and research in the field of Book Arts.

2019 :: Barbara W. & Rex W. Montgomery Award, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. In recognition of my academic excellence in the field of religious studies.

2019 :: Dwight and Hannelore Bozeman Fellowship, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. To support my research in Persian and South Asian Studies.

2019 :: Junior Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, US. To support my research and training in Critical Bibliography and the History of the Book.

2019 :: The Robert and Mary Ann Small Stenger Religious Studies Scholarship, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. To support my academic research and dissertation writing.

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2018–19 :: Newberry Library, Chicago, US—École Nationale des Chartes Exchange Fellowship, Paris, France. To support my archival research and fieldwork in France.

2018–19 :: Marcus Bach Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. To support my academic research and dissertation writing.

2018 :: President & Mrs. Eugene Gilmore Award, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. In recognition of my scholarship on the relationship between religion and culture with an emphasis on the visual arts.

2017 :: Sally and Ken Mason Travel Grant, Office of the Executive Vice President & Provost, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. To support my academic training, archival research and fieldwork in Jordan.

2016 :: Junior Research Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies, Chicago, US. To support my archival research and fieldwork in India.

2016 :: Thomas W. Simons Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies, Chicago, US. To support my archival research and fieldwork in India.

2016 :: T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. To support my archival research and fieldwork in England and Tajikistan.

2015 :: Alice Lampe Heidel & John B. Heidel Award, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. In recognition of my commitment to teaching and exceptional service to undergraduate students.

2014–19 :: Presidential Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. To support my graduate studies and research at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US.

2012–14 :: Academic Scholarship for Graduate Studies, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. In recognition of my academic excellence in the field of Iranian Studies; awarded consecutively in 2012–13 and 2013–14.

2012 :: Barbara W. and Rex E. Montgomery Award, Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. In recognition for academic excellence in the field of religious studies and to support my research abroad.

2012 :: Stanley—University of Iowa Summer Language Scholarship, Department of Asian and Slavic Languages, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. To support my study of Mughal Persian language and literature at the American Institute of Indian Studies, Lucknow, India.

2011 :: Stanley Fellowship for Graduate Student Research Abroad, International Programs, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. To support my archival research and fieldwork in India.

2011 :: Stanley—University of Iowa Summer Language Scholarship, Department of Asian and Slavic Languages, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. To support my study of Prakrit languages and literatures at the American Institute of Indian Studies, Pune, India.

2010-12 :: Presidential Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. To support my graduate studies and research at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US.