NEH Collaborative Research Grant in conjunction with the 2025 conference “Aesthetics of Solidarity by Arab American and Arab Diaspora Artists in the U.S., 1948–Present,” hosted by Michigan State University April 9-12, 2025
Institute of Advanced Studies Fellowship 2022-2023, Loughborough University, UK, May 2-5, 2023.
Senior Humanities Fellowship, the NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World, 2022-2023
Presidential Citation, UNT President, 2021
Kuwait Prize for Arts and Literature, the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, 2020
Getty Foundation Grant, Mapping Art Histories in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey Project, 2019-2022
Developmental Leave, UNT, Fall 2018 Presidential Excellency Award for Faculty, UNT, 2018
Creative Capital, Arts Writer Grant, Andy Warhol Foundation, 2018
The Crow Collection of Asian Art’s Achievement in Asian Arts and Culture Award, 2017
Research Creativity Enhancement, University of North Texas, 2010
National Endowment for the Humanities-Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants: The Open Modern Art Collection of Iraq: Web tools for documenting, sharing and enriching Iraqi artistic expressions and experiences, 2009
Fulbright Senior Scholar Program: Lecture/Research fellowship to Jordan Project: Arab Art Now: A Study of the Contemporary Art Vision in Jordan, 2007-2008
The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII) Fellowship, 2007
Project: Between Local and Global: Continuity in Iraqi Art Since 1990
Faculty Research Grants, University of North Texas, 2006-2007
The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII) Fellowship, 2006-2007
Project: Recovering Iraq's Modern Heritage: Constructing and Digitally Documenting the Collection of the former Saddam Center for the Arts Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of North Texas, 2005
The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. A grant for the publication of the catalogue of Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, 2005
Humanities Texas, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Texas Commission on the Arts, 2005
Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 2004
Faculty Research Grants, University of North Texas, 2003
Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of North Texas, 2003
