FELLOWSHIPS
- 2018 Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong
- 2016 Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS Singapore
- 2013 Lichtstern Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
- 2013 Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society; Advisor to the Access to Knowledge Team working on the Indian Wikipedia
- 2011 Fellow, Institut d’etudes avancees [Institute of Advanced Studies/Research] de Nantes, France
- 2010-11 Honorary Visiting Professor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- 2007 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin [Institute of Advanced Studies], Germany
- 2006 Honorary Visiting Professor, Department of Art History, MS University, Baroda
- 2005 Honorary Visiting Professor, Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- 1997-99 Sephis (Netherlands) Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 1996 Sawyer Fellow, International Institute, University of Michigan
- 1996 Rockefeller Fellow, Program in Globalization and the Media, Chicago Humanities Institute, University of Chicago
- 1992-94 Homi Bhabha National Fellowship
- 1987-88 American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship
- 1986-87 Bradford Booth/Majl Ewing Dissertation Fellowship, University of California
- 1982-83 University Fellowship, University of California
- 1981-82 Research Scholarship, University of Poona
- 1979-81 Government of India Merit Scholarship