Post-doctoral Fellowships and Awards

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Fellowships and Awards for my own research

  • UO Center for Asian & Pacific Studies (CAPS) travel award ($500) to support travel to Boston to participate in the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, April 2023
  • American Institute of Pakistan Studies travel award ($600) to support travel to Nashville to present a paper at the ISA conference in April 2022
  • Global Oregon Faculty Research travel award, November 2018, to support travel to conduct research in Pakistan, November 2018 – March 2019
  • Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Award, to support research for book project Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan: Local Actions, Local Voices, September 2017 – March 2018 ($32,675)
  • Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) Fulbright U.S. Scholar Research award, South and Central Asia, September-December 2017 (declined)
  • American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) International Conference Travel Award, to support travel to Bologna, Italy to present a paper at the ISA-CISS conference in June 2017 ($1,200)
  • Global Oregon Faculty Research International Travel Award, January 2017 ($1,000)
  • Research Award, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Oregon, Winter 2017 ($1,000)
  • Faculty Excellence Award ($25,000), Provost’s office, University of Oregon, Spring 2013
  • Residency at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy, February 21-March 21, 2013, to work on book manuscript Interpreting Islam, Modernity and Women’s Rights in Pakistan See video
  • Wulf Professorship, Oregon Humanities Center, University of Oregon, 2006-2007, for support of new course Islam and Global Forces, 2013
  • International Studies Association Travel Award Grant to support participation in the ISA Annual Meeting in Honolulu, HI, February 2005
  • CSWS grant, to support research in Pakistan August-October 2004 on a project entitled “An Islamist Victory in NWFP, Pakistan: a Defeat for Women’s Rights?”
  • Freeman Foundation grant and CAPS grant, to support research in Pakistan Fall 2003 on a project entitled ‘An Islamist Victory in NWFP, Pakistan: a Defeat for Human Rights?’
  • The American Sociological Association Travel Award Grant (0209367) supported by the National Science Foundation, to support participation in the XV World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002
  • Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS), University of Oregon, to support participation in the XV World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002
  • University of Oregon, Martin Luther King Award, for promoting awareness of alternative views on events occurring in the wake of September 11 th, January 24, 2002
  • University of Oregon Faculty Summer Study Award, to conduct follow-up research in Malaysia and Pakistan for project “Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights: Implementing CEDAW in Pakistan, Tunisia and Malaysia,” Summer 2001
  • Freeman Foundation grant, to expand CAORC project now entitled “Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights: Implementing CEDAW in Pakistan, Tunisia and Malaysia” to support research in Malaysia, Summer 2000
  • RAIRE/CAS grant ($20,000), to incorporate research into teaching, June 1999. This grant helped develop a series of web‑based modular research components for INTL 240, Perspectives on International Development, to enable students to analyze how states, donor agencies, and the UN are collaborating to make human rights issues a cornerstone of contemporary thinking on development assistance
  • Consortium of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC/USIA) grant, to support research in Pakistan and Tunisia 1998-1999, for a project entitled “Islam, Gender, and Human Rights: State Responses to International Agreements”
  • *Women of Distinction Award, from Soroptimist International of Eugene, for “Making a Difference for Women” March 4, 1999
  • Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) grant, and a Freeman Foundation grant administered by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS), University of Oregon, to support research in Pakistan January – March, 1997, for a project entitled “Working for Women’s Empowerment in Pakistan after Beijing: National Priorities and Responses”
  • International Women’s Day Award, from the Eugene Human Rights Commission, for “dedication to the empowerment of women in our community and around the world,” March 9, 1996
  • Allama Iqbal Award (First Prize, $1000), for Walls within Walls, presented by the Ministry of Culture, Government of Punjab, for the best book published on Pakistan in 1992, awarded April 1994
  • ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline grant, March 1994, to support research for a project entitled “Empowering Women: Female Education and Social Change in the Muslim World”
  • University of Oregon Social Science Seed Grant, 1993-94, to research “Female Education and Social Change in the Muslim World”
  • Fulbright Senior Lecturing/Research Award, 1991-92. The lecturing component was to assist with curriculum development in Women’s Studies in the country; the research component explored prospects and benefits of female higher education
  • International Political Science Association Travel Grant, to support participation in the IPSA World Congress in Buenos Aires, July 1991
  • USIA Linkage Grant (through APRO/AIPS and the NIPS at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad) to support travel to Pakistan, Winter 1991
  • ACLS Travel Grant, to support participation in the 11th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Amsterdam, July 1990
  • American Sociological Association Travel Grant, to support participation in the International Sociological Association conference in Madrid, July 1990
  • Curriculum Development Grant, Center for the Study of Women and Society, University of Oregon, to incorporate a WID component into course entitled “Aid to Developing Countries,” Fall 1989
  • Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, June-September 1989; funding provided through an OCH grant and a UO Faculty Summer Study Award
  • Fulbright Islamic Civilization Senior Research Grant to study working class women in the Old City of Lahore, May – August 1987; affiliated with the Women’s Division, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad
  • Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, research grant for literature survey, January – April 1987
  • Urdu Language Program Postdoctoral Fellowship, South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Summer 1985

Institutional Awards

  • Principal Investigator (PI) of the UO-Karakorum International University (KIU) grant “Enhancing the study of Climate Change and Glaciology in Gilgit-Baltistan through collaboration between Karakoram International University and the University of Oregon” for $500,000 from the U.S. Department of State, through the Center for Asia & Pacific Studies (CAPS), August 2022 – August 2024
  • Co-Principal Investigator (co-PI) of the UO-Karakorum International University (KIU) grant “Promoting Female Entrepreneurship in Gilgit” for $157,000 from the U.S. Department of State, through the Center for Asia & Pacific Studies (CAPS), October 2018 – March 2020
  • Co-Principal Investigator (co-PI) of the UO-Karakorum International University (KIU) University Partnership grant, for $1 million from the U.S. Department of State, September 1, 2013 – March 31, 2017
  • Co-author on behalf of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), “Reviving American Scholarship in Pakistan 2010-2011” for $772,030 from the U.S. Embassy, Islamabad (vetted through Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and U.S. State Dept), received February 2010