2022. Grant for research and documentary filmmaking from the Center for Climate Change and Sustainability (3CS), Ashoka University

2016. Best Dissertation Award, Department of Geography, Syracuse University

2015. Summer Research Grant, Geography Department, Syracuse University

2015.  Conference Travel Grant, Graduate Student Organization, Syracuse University

2015. Roscoe Martin Research Grant, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

2014. Roscoe Martin Research Grant, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

2014. Summer Research Grant, Geography Department, Syracuse University

2013. Second position in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) photo contest, themed “Rivers for Life”, on the Brahmaputra River. The picture I had submitted was from my research site in Majuli River Island, Assam.

2013. Conference Grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Department of South Asian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, University of Vienna for the International Conference on Northeast India at the University of Vienna, July 4-6, 2013.

2013. Conference Travel Grant, Graduate Student Organization, Syracuse University

2013. Shin-Yi Hsu Fellowship, Department of Geography, Syracuse University

2013. Summer Research Grant, Department of Geography, Syracuse University

2013. Roscoe Martin Research Grant, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

2012. Taraknath Das Foundation Grant, South Asia Center, Columbia University

2012. Roscoe Martin Research Grant, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

2012. Maxwell Dean’s Summer Research Grant, Syracuse University

2012. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Syracuse University

2011. Goekjian Fellowship, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University

2011. Bharati Memorial Summer Research Grant, South Asia Center, Syracuse University

2011. Maxwell Dean’s Summer Research Grant, Syracuse University

2010. David Sopher Award, Department of Geography, Syracuse University

2010. International Student Excellence Award, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse

2008. Ford Foundation International Fellowship, India