Fellowships and Grants – External
National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship (2013-14, $50,400)
Residential Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center (2013)
National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship (2006-7, $40,000)
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2005-6, $37,000)
American Council of Learned Societies Faculty Fellowship (2005-6, $40,000)
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Award, U.S. Department of Education (2005-6, $65,512)
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Residential Fellowship, Stanford University (2001-2)
American Philosophical Society Fellowship (1999-2000, $6,000)
Anne U. White Award, Association of American Geographers (1999-2000, $1,500, w/ Richard Schroeder)
Richard Carley Hunt Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (1996-98, $10,000)
International Doctoral Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council-American Council of Learned Societies (1991-93, $17,638)
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Award, U.S. Department of Education (1991-92, $24,666)
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation (1991, $6,661)
Jacob K. Javits Fellow, U.S. Department of Education (1988-92, declined 1991-1992; tuition & stipend)
Fellowships and Grants – Internal
Faculty Fellowship, Seminar on “Citizenship,” Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University (2003-4)
Faculty Fellowship, Seminar on “Reconfiguring Gender and Class: Identities, Rights and Social Movements,” Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University (2002-3)
Faculty Research Grant, Research Council, Rutgers University (2001-02, $1,500)
Faculty Research Grant, Research Council, Rutgers University (1999-2000, $1,000)
Faculty Research Grant, Research Council, Rutgers University (1997-98, $1,500)
Faculty Research Grant, Research Council, Rutgers University (1996-97, $3,500)
Associate Fellow, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University (1994-95)
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan (1994-95, stipend, tuition & fees)
Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, International Institute, University of Michigan (1994, $400)
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan (1993-94, stipend, tuition & fees)
Andrew W. Mellon Candidacy Fellowship, University of Michigan (Summer & Fall 1991, tuition, stipend & fees)
Rackham Travel Grants, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan (1994, 91, 89, $250 each year)
Margaret Wray French Foundation Grant, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan (1990, $1,000)
Center for Afroamerican and African Studies – Ford Foundation Grant, University of Michigan (1990, $1,000)
Fellowships/Grants for Program-Building
RU-FAIR for workshop on “Negotiating Skills for Academic Women” and Faculty Forum on “Women in Science/The Science of Women” (cancelled) (Fall 2009, $4,000)
Academic Excellence Fund for “Engendering the Global: The IRW Global Scholars Project,” a collaborative project with the Center for African Studies, South Asian Studies Program, and Latin American Studies Program to sponsor visiting scholars from the global south for semester-long residencies at Rutgers (2007-8, $40,000).
Small grants from Teaching Assistant Project and Department of Anthropology to coordinate workshops on teaching related matters (such as running discussion groups, designing a teaching portfolio, teaching dilemmas) and professionalization (such as designing a CV, how to publish your first book) for graduate students (2002-5)
Bildner Intercultural Fellowship for project on “Culture, Power and Social Difference: Anthropological Perspectives” to design teaching modules for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology recitation sections (2002-3, $4,000).
Reinvest in Rutgers Grant on “Gendered Public Policies” to design new undergraduate course, “Gender, Environment, Development: Policies, Politics, Perspectives” for Anthropology and Institute for Women’s Leadership (with Bonnie McCay, 2001-02, $2,000)
Ford Foundation Grant for “Distinguished African Women’s Project” to sponsor four prominent African women scholars, activists, and artists as scholars-in-residence; design new courses and course modules on gender in Africa; and purchase relevant curricular materials (co-directed with Abena Busia; 1999-2000, $121,000)
Academic Computer Initiative Grant, Rutgers University (for upgrading and expanding departmental computer and multimedia facilities) (1999-2000, $40,000)
Instructional Computing Initiative Grant, Rutgers University (for new Graduate Computing Lab and Multimedia Lab) (1996-97, $33,000)