University of North Texas 
External/Federal Grants
Funded/Active
| 2018-2022 | Documentation of Endangered Languages program (DEL), National Science Foundation |
| Project Title: “Investigation of Tonogenesis and Consonant Inventories through Language Documentation”. (PI/Project Director)($284,700) |
Completed
| 2016 | NSF-DEL Supplemental Award for conducting an orthography workshop on Burushaski language and inviting a visiting scholar from Pakistan to UNT. (PI/Project Director) ($10,840) |
| 2010-2015 | Documentation of Endangered Languages program (DEL), National Science Foundation Project Title: “Archive of Annotated Burushaski Texts” (PI/Project Director) (Amount: $163, 000) |
| 2004-2005 | National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant Project Title: "Jammu & Kashmir Burushaski: Language, Language Contact and Change" (Amount: $12, 000) |
Submitted/Not funded
| 2016 | NEH/Humanities Collections and Reference Program Project Title: “Preserving for Posterity: Documentation of Endangered Manuscripts of Kashmir”Amount requested: $50,000 Status: Revise and resubmit |
Intramural Grants and Funding at UNT
| 2019 | Global Venture Fund, UNT (Amount: $3,000) (PI) (To conduct a one-day symposium on the endangered folk traditions of Kashmir and adjoining areas, and submit an external grant proposal in NEH to document the endangered musical traditions of the region) |
| 2019 | COI Seed Grant, UNT (Amount: $3,500) (PI) (To work towards an external grant proposal in NEH to document the endangered musical traditions of South Asia, with special focus on Kashmir) |
Completed
| 2018 | India Venture Fund, University of North Texas ($7500). (PI) (Award allowed the PI to take a group of UNT graduate students on a research trip to India in summer 2018 to collect data and information about the endangered manuscripts of Kashmir). |
| 2017 | UNT College of Information Seed Grant ($5000) (co-PI) (This award is for a proposal to develop infrastructure for Computational Resources for South Asian Languages (with Shobhana Chelliah (PI), Alexis Palmer, Christina Wasson, Rodney Neilson, and Jiangping Chen). |
| 2013 | Charn Uswachoke Research Development Grant, UNT ($6000) (PI) For the (ongoing) Kashmir Oral History project documenting personal narratives of Kashmir conflict. Project website: https://kashmiroralhistory.org/ |
| 2008 | Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, UNT ($5000) For working on an external grant proposal to document Burushaski. |
| 2008 | Faculty Research Grant, UNT ($5000) For conducting linguistic fieldwork on Burushaski. |
| 2007 | Faculty Research Grant, UNT ($5000) For studying contact-induced language change in Burushaski. |
| 2007 | Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, UNT ($5000) For writing a research paper on Burushaski language contact. |
| 2006 | New Faculty Research Grant, UNT ($5000) For conducting linguistic research. |
Other Awards, Recognitions and Grants
| 2019-2020 | Leadership Fellow, University of North Texas |
| 2005 | University Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin. |
| 2005 | Myerson's Grant, UT Austin For presenting a research paper at a conference. |
| 2003 | Liberal Arts Graduate Research Fellowship, UT Austin For conducting fieldwork for doctoral research |
| 2002 | Professional Development Award, UT Austin For presenting at a conference |
| 2001 | South Asia Institute Travel Grant, UT Austin For presenting a research paper at an international conference in Germany |
| 1999-2001 | Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission of India.(The fellowship is a result of a national competition and very few awards are made countrywide). |
| 1999 | Shri Uggrasain Gold Medal, University of Delhi (For being a topper in the MA program in Linguistics at DU) |
| 1999 | Shri R. N. Shrivastava Gold Medal, University of Delhi (For exceptional performance in MA in Linguistics at DU) |