Awards and Accomplishments

• UMN Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Travel Funding

[For archival work at the Sound Archives in Humboldt Berlin]

• UMN Centre for German and European Studies Travel Fellowship

[For archival work at the Sound Archives in Humboldt Berlin]

• Rose Travel Fellowship in Arts and Humanities for Creative Research In Asia, UMN

[Project Title: Traveling through Pre-Modern Calcutta: Sites, Sounds and Smells | Principal Investigator | Jointly held with Ipsa S and Ara Sengupta]

• The Graduate Student Research and Travel Award, Asian American Studies, UMN

[Paper Title: The Future of the ‘Bhoot’ In the ‘Dying City’: Death, Mediation and Pariah in Contemporary Calcutta Conference: Global Asia(s) 7 Conference, 2025, 22nd January, 2025]

• Saltus Grant, Centre for Pre-Modern Studies, UMN

[Project Title: Traveling through Pre-Modern Calcutta: Sites, Sounds and Smells | Principal Investigator]

• Point Persistence Scholarship, Fall 2024

• The Khashu Award for Tagore Studies, The Tagore Program, Institute of South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley

• Graduate Student Project Award, Women and Gender Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

[Project Title: Traveling with Feluda]

• Swarnjit Arora Award, Asian Faculty and Staff  Council, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

• Chancellor Fellowship, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

• Berkeley Centre for New Media Conference Grant Spring 2023

• UC Berkeley Centre for Contemporary India Rapid Response Grant 2023

• UC Berkeley Centre for Contemporary India Rapid Response Grant 2022

• UC Berkeley Graduate Division Conference Grant Summer 2022

• UC Berkeley American Cultures Centre Course Development Grant Summer 2022

• UC Berkeley Graduate Student Instructor Resource Centre Course Development Grant Fall 2022

• Brian Gialketsis SERQueer Scholarship Finalist

• Dean’s List (Monsoon 2017, Monsoon 2018; Summer 2019, Spring 2020, Monsoon 2020, Spring 2021)

• Gold 2016: Queen's Commonwealth Essay Writing Competition for an essay on The Inclusive Commonwealth