Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Spring 2023 (Hunter College)
Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, Senior Visiting Fellow, Summer 2016
Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, Visiting Fellow, June 2012
King’s College, London, Visiting Fellow, June 2012
Mellon Mid-Career Faculty Fellowship, Spring 2011 (CUNY Graduate Center)
George N. Shuster Faculty Fellowship, 2010 (Hunter College)
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, 2006
Presidential Travel Award, 2005-06, 2007, 2010 (Hunter College)
PSC-CUNY Research Grant, 2005, 2006 (CUNY Research Foundation)
CUNY Scholar Incentive Award 2006 (declined)
South Asia Council Grant, Association for Asian Studies, 2002
Indiana Consortium for International Programs (ICIP) Grant, 2002
Plowshares Peace Studies Grant, 2002-03 (Manchester College)
Indiana Network for the Development of India Awareness (INDIA) Grant, 2002
Martin Luther King Jr. Service Award 2002 (Manchester College)
Office of Academic Affairs/Murphy Fund Grant, 2002-03 (Manchester College)
Coca-Cola World Fund Grant 2000-01 (Yale University)
David Bruton Jr. University Fellowship 1997-98 (The University of Texas at Austin)
American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Dissertation Fellowship 1996-97
Intensive Foreign Language HEA Title VI Fellowship 1995 (UW- Madison)
Graduate Professional Development Awards 1994, 95, 99 (UTX-Austin)
Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship 1995-96 (UTX-Austin)
Morton H. and Marlene N. Meyerson Endowment Travel Grants 1994,95,98 (UTX-Austin)
Ford Foundation Area Studies and Social Science Research Grant 1994 (UTX-Austin)
Asian Studies Travel Grant 1993 (The University of Texas at Austin)
Mellon Foundation Presidential Grant 1992 (Carleton College)
Manu Bhagavan 