2020-21 Teacher-Scholar Grant, Cal Poly Pomona
2020–21 Special Project for Improving Classroom Environments (SPICE) Grant, Cal Poly Pomona
2019–21 Humanities for All Project Grant, Documentary Film Award, California Humanities
2019-20 SPICE Grant, Cal Poly Pomona
2018 Marcia Herndon Award for Excellent Research on Gender and Sexuality, Society for Ethnomusicology Gender and Sexualities Taskforce
2017-18 Projet Autoritas Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud-EHESS/CNRS, Paris
2015 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
2014-15 Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA
2014-15 Collegium of University Teaching Fellowship, UCLA
2013-14 Project Involve Program Fellowship, Film Independent, Los Angeles
2012-13 Fulbright-mtvU Fellowship/Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship
2012-13 Graduate Research Mentorship (GRM) Grant, UCLA
2012 Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Award for Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2012 Elaine Krown Klein Award for Fine Arts, UCLA
2012 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (GSRM) Grant, UCLA
2011 American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Urdu Language Fellowship, Lucknow, India
2011 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (GSRM) Grant, UCLA
2010 Award for Research and Publication, Society for Asian Music (SAM)
2003-07 Danforth Scholarship for Community Service, Full Tuition, Washington University in St. Louis
2005 Le Prix de Constantin Christophides pour l’histoire d’art, L’Institut Américain Universitaire, Aix-en-Provence, France
2003 Archbishop Desmond Tutu International Emerging Leaders Award