Distinctions
Awards, Distinctions and Fellowships
- Titled, “ Drinking Secularism: A Critique of Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam,” I delivered the Roy Rappaport distinguished lecture for the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (of American Anthropological Association) bi-annual conference held at the University of Victoria, Canada in the summer of 2023.
- Invited to deliver the TED-X talk by the University of Göttingen, Germany 2019
- Invited by UNDP, Oslo, in 2016 to give a talk on preventing violent extremism.
- Visiting Associate Professor, The Watson Institute for International Affairs, Brown University, the USA, 2014
- Visiting Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2012
- Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany, 2011
- Islamism and Democracy in India short-listed for the International Convention of Asia Scholars (2011) Book Prize for the best study in the field of Social Sciences
- My essay “Shared Horizon” long-listed for Australia’s Calibre Prize Competition, 2010
- Finalist for the Smuts Research Fellowship 2006, University of Cambridge, UK
- Awarded Fellowship for the European and American Young Scholars’ Summer Institute by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Berlin, 2001
- Awarded Full Doctoral Scholarship by University of Amsterdam in 2000
- Awarded Commonwealth Scholarship for Doctorate by the Government of India, 2000
- Awarded National Merit Scholarship by Government of India, for Master’s, 1994 –96
- Winner of Inter-University Debate Competition held at Jawaharlal Nehru University and organized by Delhi Sociological Society/Association, 1995/1996
- Secured First Position with First Division in B.A (Hons.) in 1994
- Winner of many debate and essay competitions at the University and Inter-Hostel levels at Jamia Millia Islamia between 1992 and 1994.
- Awarded the second best essay prize for the All-Bihar Essay Competition in Urdu organized by ʿIlmī Majlis, Bihar, 1988
