Writer and Researcher on the Asia Society’s Homeland Afghanistan, a Webby Award Honoree (2011)
Grand Prize Winner, Bright Star Writing Contest (2009)
Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2008), declined
Summer Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (2007)
Einaudi Travel Grant (2005 and 2006)
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (2005 and 2006)
Sage Fellowship (2004)
James S. Berglund Prize for Social Sciences (2002)
Distinction in Anthropology (2002)
Magna Cum Laude (2002)
Freeman Fellowship (2001)