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.