Honors, Grants and Awards

Professional

  • National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Fellowship, 2021–2022.

  • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Project Development Grant, Summer 2020.

  • Edwin L. Minar, Jr. Award for Scholarship (DePauw), May 2020.

  • (with Justin Stearns, NYU-Abu Dhabi), Grant for Workshop, New York University-Abu Dhabi Institute, 2019–2020. Workshop Title: "Current Trends in the History of Science in Muslim Societies: Debates, Approaches and Stakes." Workshop Dates: December 11–12, 2019.

  • Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (Fall 2015).

  • (Collaborator) Partnership Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada, 2015–2019. Project: “Science Teaching in Pre-Modern and Modern Islamic Societies: Pedagogical Approaches in Religious, Institutional and Geographical Contexts” (PI: Anila Asghar and Jamil Ragep, McGill University, Montreal, QC).

  • Fulton Family Faculty Fellowship (DePauw), "The Fate of Ibn al-Nafis's Novel Theories in the Medical Works of the Mamluk Period, 1260-1518," 2013–2016–1-course reduction and a salary supplement.

  • NEH Summer Seminar, 2012: “Health and Disease in the Middle Ages,” London, UK, June 25—July 28, 2012.

  • Honorable Mention for Young Scholar Prize, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, 2009.

  • NEH Summer Institute, 2008: “The Medieval Mediterranean and the Origins of the West,” Barcelona, Spain, June 29—July 25, 2008.

  • Bruce D. Craig Prize for Best Dissertation in Mamluk Studies, 2007.

  • Fisher Time-Out (DePauw), 2007–1-course reduction to develop a course on "Partition and Memory."

Graduate

  • Notre Dame Graduate Teaching Fellowship, 2005—2006.

  • Notre Dame Graduate Fellowship, 1999—2005.

  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario, 1999 (Award declined because I transferred to Notre Dame).

  • Connaught Award, University of Toronto, 1998—1999—Tuition scholarship and stipend for pursuing an M.A.

  • Knox Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship, 1997—1998.

Undergraduate

  • E. Inman Fox Prize, Knox College (1997)—For demonstrating exceptional scholarly achievement and the pursuit of a truly liberal education, combining a thirst for knowledge with well developed habits of rational inquiry and a desire to understand varieties of human expression.

  • Haring-Houston Award, Knox College (1997)—For contributing the most to promoting international understanding on campus.

  • Biochemistry Prize, Knox College (1997)—Awarded to the best graduating senior in Biochemistry.

  • Faculty Scholarship Prize, Knox College (1996)—For demonstrating exceptional ability both in scholastic pursuits and extra-curricular activities.

  • Knox-Howard Hughes Medical Institute Career Development Apprenticeship Fellowship, June—August 1996.

  • Phi Beta Kappa, 1997.

  • Mortar Board, 1997.