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)
2019-20 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship
2019-20 Wolfensohn Family Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
2019 Academic Writing Fellowship, Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation Residency
2007-08 Fellowship, Council on Middle East Studies, MacMillan Center, Yale University - 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