Grants & Fellowships

Endowed Chair, Women’s Studies Program. 2009-2010. Brooklyn College, New York.

SDSU Office of International Programs. 2009. Travel grant to India for conducting a Study Abroad Program.

Carstens/Wertz Faculty Development Grant. 2009. Travel grant to Albuquerque for a conference presentation.

Carstens/Wertz Faculty Development Grant. 2008. Travel grant to Sweden for a workshop on gendered violence in conflict.

Carstens/Wertz Faculty Development Grant. 2007. Travel grant to Turkey.

SDSU Office of International Programs. 2006. To conduct a Study Abroad Program in Turkey.

SDSU Office of International Programs. 2006. With Prof. Doreen Mattingly to conduct a Study Abroad Program in India.

Carstens/Wertz Faculty Development Grant. 2006. Travel grant to Afghanistan.

SDSU Office of International Programs. 2005. With Prof. Doreen Mattingly to conduct a Study Abroad Program in India.

Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace 2004. Received a $32,000 grant for conducting a regional cooperation workshop in India with Afghanistan and Pakistan on, “Training for Women’s Economic Skills Promotion in South Asia: Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.”

SDSU Office of International Programs. 2004. With Prof. Doreen Mattingly to create an exchange program with the Center for Women’s Studies and Development Center, Delhi University, India.

Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace. 2003. Two grants facilitated my trip to Afghanistan to study women-run non-government organizations (NGOs). It has resulted in a manuscript entitled, “Deconstructing the Human Rights Discourse: A Case-study of Afghanistan.” Submitted to International Feminist Journal of Politics. It has also resulted in my coordinating the Hansen Foundation’s interest in hosting a major workshop on issues of NGO management training for women in Afghanistan in partnership with women-run NGOs in India, and Pakistan. $4,800 and $4,000.

Grants-in-Aid, SDSU Foundation. 2003. This grant facilitated the hiring of a research assistant to help conduct interviews and transcribing with second-generation Muslim women in San Diego. This has resulted in a work in progress, “Post September 11: Second-Generation Muslim Women in America.” $6,500.

SDSU Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity (RSCA) Award. 2003. This grant was a leave of absence for a semester. During the grant period I conducted research among second-generation Muslim women and the construction of their identities post 9/11. I conducted interviews, and researched secondary sources on the topic. I also completed and submitted two articles to peer reviewed journals on Ahmadi women.

California Council for the Humanities. 2003. Participated in a successful grant application with the San Diego Public Library and Malcolm X Library to the for a project titled, Stories of Faith: Religion and Diversity in San Diego. $80,000.

Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace. 2002. Minigrant for “Women’s Peace Activism in India.” Provided funding for students in the Study Abroad Program to India. $5,000

Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace. 2002. Minigrant for attending and participating in a workshop, “Role of Women in Regional Cooperation towards South Asian Peace,” in Kathmandu, Nepal, in June 2002. $5,000

Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace. 2002. Minigrant for “Women’s Peace Activism in India.” Provided funding for students in the Study Abroad Program to India.$5,000

Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace. 2001. Minigrant for “Women Connecting: Gender, Peace, and Politics in China and the United States.” Provided funding for students in the Study Abroad Program to China. $5,000

SDSU Office of International Programs. 2001. With Prof. Doreen Mattingly to conduct the Study Abroad Program in China. $4,000

SDSU Office of International Program Award. 2000. China. International Opportunity Grants for exchange programs with Chinese Universities (Profs. Susan Cayleff, Oliva Espin, and Doreen Mattingly). $6,000

SDSU Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity (RSCA) Award. 1999. This grant was awarded to study Ahmadi women and their coping strategies in a foreign society. The research resulted in a conference presentation, “Claiming their Space: Ahmadi Women in North America,” at University of California, Irvine, on Muslim Identities in North America. May 2000. $3,531.

SDSU Office of International Programs. 1999. This grant along with the following grant enabled to cover travel expenses to India and Pakistan. $1,000.

Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace 1999. This grant enabled me, in collaboration with Deepak Gupta, to establish links in India and Pakistan through apeople-to-people dialogue forum for South Asian peace. This project resulted in aconference presentation, “The University as a Peacemaking Agent: SDSU Experience.”With Deepak Gupta. Center for the Studies of Geopolitics, Punjab University,Chandigarh. India.