Fulbright Fellowship, Damascus, Syria, 2004-2005, Project title: Women, Modernity and Sufism: Islamic Discourse and Social Tensions in Syria
-- Clarendon Fund Bursary, 2005 - 2008, scholarship and stipend covering fee-paying years of graduate studies at Oxford
-- Overseas Research Student Fellowship, 2006 - 2008, scholarship (fee reduction) to University of Oxford
-- BRISMES Graduate Article Prize in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, 2007
For article "Social and Religious Change in Damascus: One Case of Female Islamic Religious Authority," a case study of the Damascene mosque instructor Houda al-Habash, focusing especially on her authority as a female religious leader. [Final version linked above; authors post-print here.]
-- BRISMES Research Student Award, 2008 - 2009, to support dissertation fieldwork
-- Oriental Studies Faculty Research Grant, Near and Middle Eastern Studies, 2008 - 2009, to support dissertation fieldwork
-- Colin Matthew Fund Award, Travel for Historical Research, 2008 - 2009, to support dissertation fieldwork