— Awards, Grants, & Fellowships

AWARDS

2022CCCC Scholars for Dreams Award by Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC)
2021Civil Society Scholar Award by Open Society Foundations | $15,000
2021CPTSC Diversity Scholarship Award by Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) | $1,000
2021Purdue Graduate School/College Scholarship | $1,000
2020Emerging Scholar Award by Purdue’s Graduate Student English Association | $200
Summer 2019 Introductory Composition at Purdue’s Quintilian Award for Excellence in Teaching
2017Outstanding English Graduate Student Award, Minnesota State University  
March 2014U.S. Department of State, International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) Award 

GRANTS

Aug. 2021
May 2020
April 2019
Sept 2018
College of Liberal Arts PROMISE Grant | $1,500
May 2021Purdue Graduate Student Government (PGSG) Professional Development Grant | $600
June 2020Graduate School Travel Award | $250
May 2019Purdue Graduate Student Government (PGSG) Professional Development Grant | $700
February 2021
March 2019
March 2018
Introductory Composition at Purdue & GradSEA’s Travel Grant | $200
Aug. 2018Department of English Rider Grant | $250
Oct. 2016Minnesota State University Travel Grant | $450
Sept. 2016MIDTESOL Travel Grant Award for Higher Education | $200
May 2015U.S. Embassy Travel Grant | $2500
March 2014TESOL Professional Grant | $1500
March 2012IATEFL Gillian Porter Ladousse Scholarship | $900
March 2012British Council, Nepal Travel Grant | $650
March 2012University Grant Commissions, Nepal | $250           
Jan 2011-
Sept 2014
U.S. Department of State/U.S. Embassy Kathmandu Nepal–English Access Microscholarship Program Nepal | $890,000

FELLOWSHIPS

2021-2022 Ross-Lynn Research Scholar Award | $56,109Awarded as support during the final year of the Ph.D. program; sponsored by Dean’s Office, College of Liberal Arts and the English Department, Purdue University
2020Purdue Research Foundation Summer Dissertation Fellowship | $3,600