FELLOWSHIPS

These competitive fellowships enabled multi-year ethnographic fieldwork across two continents, supporting innovative visual research methods despite pandemic challenges.

MAJOR FELLOWSHIPS

2021-2024

Presidential PhD Fellowship
University of Pennsylvania
Penn’s most prestigious doctoral fellowship, providing full funding for the final years of dissertation research and writing. [Details]

2021-2022

Mellon Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Humanities, Urbanism & Design (H+U+D), University of Pennsylvania
Supported interdisciplinary research examining visual methods in urban ethnography.

2021-2022

Sobti Family Fellowship
Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), University of Pennsylvania
Enabled extended fieldwork in Kerala examining fishing communities and urban development.

2017-2021
Fall 2024

Weitzman School of Design Doctoral Fellowship
University of Pennsylvania
Full funding for doctoral studies, including tuition, stipend, and research support.

RESEARCH AWARDS

Summer 2020

GAPSA Provost Fellowship Award for Interdisciplinary Innovation (Summer), University of Pennsylvania

Centre for Experimental Ethnography (CEE) Graduate Student Summer Research Grant, University of Pennsylvania 

Centre for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) Summer Research Funds Award, University of Pennsylvania

Mellon Humanities, Urbanism and Design (H+U+D) Graduate Student Research Award, University of Pennsylvania

These awards supported the adaptation of photovoice methodology during COVID-19 Travel Restrictions.

Summer 2019

Centre for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) Summer Research Funds Award, University of Pennsylvania

Mellon Humanities, Urbanism and Design (H+U+D) Graduate Student Research Award, University of Pennsylvania

Funded initial fieldwork establishing research sites in Accra and Kochi.

Photograph: Vendor taking a Tro Tro in Accra, Ghana (Outside the new Municipality office), November 2019