Awards/Fellowships

2025–26

  • Mellon / American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Innovation Fellowship for Dissertation Fieldwork. Link

2025

  • The Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Prize, for the most distinguished student or early-career person’s paper on the performing arts of South Asia, Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM). Link
  • The Martin Hatch Prize, Best Student Paper on Asian Music and/or Performance, Society for Asian Music (SAM). Link

2024–25

  • 21st Century Music Dissertation Fellowship, Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM). Link
  • Small Grants for Dissertation Research, Society for Asian Music (SAM). Link
  • Hart Fellowship for Tamil Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Link

2024

  • South Asian Literature in Translation (SALT) Fellowship for Multi-lingual Poetry with Ranjit Hoskote, University of Chicago.
  • Performing Voices of Bhakti Fellowship, Voices of Bhakti (Bay Area).
  • Bibliography Fellowship, South Asian Performing Arts Section, Society for Ethnomusicology.
  • Dean’s Arts “University of the Future, Now!” Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz.

2023–24

  • Graduate Research Award, Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS), UC Santa Cruz.
  • Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship, Teaching and Learning Center, UC Santa Cruz. Link

2023

  • Humanities Institute Fellowship, Winter Podcasting Institute, National Humanities Center (NHC).
  • Arts Dean’s Fund for Equity and Excellence, UC Santa Cruz.
  • Digital India Learning Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS). Link
  • Summer Pathways Fellowship Grant, Arts Research Institute, UC Santa Cruz.

2022–23

  • Graduate Fellowship, Arts Research Institute, UC Santa Cruz. Link

2022

  • BITS Global 30 Under 30 Alumni Excellence Award, BITS Pilani University.
  • Arts Dean’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grant, UC Santa Cruz.
  • Arts Dean’s Fund for Equity and Excellence, UC Santa Cruz.

2021

  • Regent’s Fellowship for Graduate Education, UC Santa Cruz.

2020

  • Art Omi Music Residency Fellowship, New York.
  • Flow Fund, Santok Trust, for Independent Artistic Work.