2025-2026 — Rita E. Hauser Fellow, Radcliffe Fellowship, Harvard Radcliffe Institute
2023 — National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Fellowship
2021 — Berlin Prize, Berthold Leibinger Fellow, The American Academy of Berlin
2020-2021 — Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Transregional Collaboratory on the Indian Ocean Planning Grant, with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
2019 — The American Anthropological Association Middle East Section Book Award Winner, for Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen (Stanford, 2018)
2019 — The Association for Gulf and Arabian Studies (AGAPS) Biennial Book Award Honorable Mention for Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen (Stanford University Press, 2018)
2019-2020 — American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship
2019-2020 — Wolfensohn Family Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
2019 — Academic Writing Fellowship, Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation Residency
2007-2008 — Fellowship, Council on Middle East Studies, MacMillan Center, Yale University
As well as fellowships from Fulbright-Hays (DDRA), the SSCR-IPFP, the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA), the Andrew F. Mellon Foundation (Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies) and American Institute of Yemeni Studies