Fellowships/Grants/Awards

• Visiting Scholarship to the School of Education, University of Western Cape. 26^th May – 31^st May 2023.

• Visiting Scholarship to the School of Education, University of Western Cape. 10^th April – 15^th April 2023.

• ‘The United Nations Certificate of Awesomeness for Boosting the International Profile of WICDS. Awarded by Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WICDS), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 2022.’The United Nations Certificate of Awesomeness for Boosting the International Profile of WICDS. Awarded by Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WICDS), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 2022.

• JIWS (Journal of International Women’s Studies) Fellowship by Department of Anthropology, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts. The topic of the project: The Role of Siddi Women within the Indigenous Spiritual Spaces of Siddi Community in India: A Case Study on Women’s Participation in Mai Misra Worship in Gujarat. 2022.

• SarChi Chair and SA National Research Foundation Chair in Critical Diversity Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at WITS Centre for Diversity Studies, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, (October 2021 – September 2023).

• Volkswagen Foundation Scholarship, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2019.

• Humanities and Social Sciences Conference Travel Grant by Shahid Husain Foundation and Lahore Institute of Management Sciences, Pakistan, 2019.

• Wordit Art Fund by Becomeshakespeare.com, India, 2018. For publishing the monograph Different Spaces, Different Voices: A Rendezvous with Decoloniality.

• JIWS (Journal of International Women’s Studies) Fellowship by Department of Anthropology, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts. The topic of the project:Voices of the dead: A socio-historical documentary research on the untold histories of the ‘Scottish Women’s Group’ of Kolkata at Scottish Cemetery, Sealdah. 2019.

• GAPS (Gesellschaftfür Anglophone PostkolonialeStudien / Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies) Conference Grant 2018, Germany.

• JIWS (Journal of International Women’s Studies) Fellowship by Department of Anthropology, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts. The topic of the project: Dismantling the Colonial Heteronormative (His)tories and establishing Decolonial Inter-racial (Her)stories: A Documentary Research on the Anglo-Indian Women of Bow Barracks, Calcutta. 2018.

• Cambridge Scholars Press Publishing Grant 2017,UK. For publishing the monograph The Indigenous Voice of Poetomachia: The Various Perspectives of Text and Performance.