Honors and Grants

Freie Universität Berlin, Open Access Publishing Grant (for Rethinking Islamic Modernism)

Fritz Thyssen Foundation Conference Grant

DAVO (German Middle East Studies Association), Award for Best Dissertation in the Field

Association for Asian Studies (AAS), South Asia Council, Graduate Paper Prize for Best Research Paper

Princeton University, J. D. Rockefeller, Jr. Merit Fellowship

Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Princeton University, PIIRS, Research grant

Princeton University, PIIRS, Language Acquisition Grant

Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, Travel scholarship

American Institute for Pakistan Studies, Travel grant

Whiting Foundation, Travel grant

Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst, German Federal Merit Scholarship

Teaching and Mentorship

Teaching

• Co-instructor (with Sadia Bajwa), “Islam, Politics and Education in Modern South Asia”, Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for South Asian Studies, 2024

• Guest lecturer, “Research Methods: Working with Non-European Archival Collections”, University of Hamburg, , 2023

• Guest lecturer, “Muslims in India: Beyond the Hindu Nation”, Martin Luther University of Halle/Wittenberg, 2022

• Instructor, “Politics in the Modern Middle East”, Maria Sibylla Merian High School, Herrnhut, 2020

• Co-instructor (with Muhannad Taha, Aleppo/Berlin), “Following the Prophet: An Introduction to the Islamic Tradition”, Cloister Volkenroda, 2019

• Instructor, “Introduction to Shi’i Islam”, Augustum Anne High School, Goerlitz, 2019

• Instructor, “One Faith, Many Faces: Muslims in Germany”, Protestant Academy of Saxony, Meissen, 2016-2019

• Instructor, “Pakistan: Legal System and Governance”, BAMF, Freiburg i. B., 2017

• Instructor, “Pakistan: History, Politics, Society”, BAMF, Freiburg i. B., 2016

• Instructor, “Introduction to Research Methods in South Asian Studies”, Loyola Hall Lahore: Jesuit Mission in Pakistan, 2011

Undergraduate Research Mentor

• Asim Shaukat, “The Idea of Pakistan and the Christian Leadership of Punjab”, FCCU Lahore, Pakistan (2018, Summa Cum Laude)

Teacher Training

• Teaching Seminar, “Integrated Course Design”, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, Princeton University

Service to the Profession

Equal Opportunities Officer, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 2020

Peer review for The Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Qur’anic Studies, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, and Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations

Editorship for Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia.