Fellowships & Grants

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)