Selected Grants
Teaching South Asia Through Material Objects and Performance Events
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Education · 2008 - 2009The Milli Gorus and the Diyanet: Competing Muslim Challenges to the Relationship between "Church and State" in Europe
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2001 - 2002"Secularist Turkey's Official Islam and the Shaping of Turkish Migrant Religious and Political Identies in Germany
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 1999 - 2000Islamic Mysticism in Modern Turkey
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 1993 - 1993Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research
Punjab at the Limits of History ·
2020
- 2020
co-PI ·
Awarded by: Alliance Program, Columbia University
· $15,000.00
Christophe Jaffrelot, Sciences Po, Paris. co-PI, and Rajbir Singh Judge, California State University, Long Beach. Collaborative workshop at Columbia University, postponed until 2022 due to COVID.
Residential writing fellowship, Paris ·
2019
- 2020
PI ·
Awarded by: Institute for Ideas and Imagination
Salary support for leave to write up project "Reinventing Sufism in Northwest Africa."
Reinventing Sufism in Morocco. ·
2018
- 2019
PI ·
Awarded by: American Academy of Religion
· $5,000.00
collaborative project with Meriem El-Haitami (assistant professor at l'Université Internationale de Rabat).
Life History and Mémographie: Encountering Socio-Religious Change in Northwest Africa ·
2018
- 2018
PI ·
Awarded by: Alliance Française Joint Projects
· $15,000.00
co-authored with Wendell Marsh, conference organized at Gaston Berger University, Saint-Louis, Senegal
Life History and Mémographie: Encountering socio-religious change in Senegal ·
2018
- 2018
PI ·
Awarded by: GRRI (Global Religion Research Initiative), Notre Dame (Templeton)
· $25,000.00
with Wendell Marsh, PhD student at Columbia, and Professor Abdou Seck at Gaston Berger University. For collaborative training workshop for graduate students at Gaston Berger University.
"Rethinking Public Religion in Africa and South Asia ·
2018
- 2021
PI, with Matthew Engelke ·
Awarded by: Henry Luce Foundation
· $385,000.00
"Mapping the Sacred: Preserving Life-Giving Ecosystems." ·
2017
- 2018
PI ·
Awarded by: Columbia University Catalyst Grant
· $25,000.00
Religion and the Rise of Populisms: Difference, Dissent and Tolerance. ·
2017
- 2019
PI ·
Awarded by: Columbia University President's Global Initiative Fund.
· $80,000.00
"Sufis, Salafis, and the Public Square." ·
2016
- 2018
co-PI with Alexander Stille. ·
Awarded by: ACLS
· $60,000.00
Program in Religion, Journalism, and International Affairs.