AwardsPEN American / Jean Stein Oral History Prize | 2024
One of two prizes internationally awarded for work towards Broken Arabic: When We Talk about Home; and Forms of Displacement. Leverhulme Research Fellowship | 2021 - 2023 This fellowship supports the completion of the book-length project, When We Talk About Home: Testimonies, Oral Histories, and Poetry of Migration. Arts Council National Lottery Grant, for "Making Drama out of Crisis" | 2021 - 2022 I serve as a co-investigator and part of Jude Haste's team on this grant. AHRC Research Networking Grant | 2021 - 2024 Co-investigator alongside PI Dr Rona Cran on grant funding the creation of the Network for New York School Studies. British Academy sponsored "Being Human Festival" Grant award | 2020 Grant supporting "Making Home Away: Tented Lives of Refugees". This pop-up tent exhibit will actively seek to engage public audiences in the town centre of Reading, in the Autumn of 2020. See New/Now for more. British Academy "Summer Showcase" Grant | 2020 This life-size interactive display of a Syrian refugee's tent invites visitors to walk through and around it, so to imagine what it feels like to live in such temporary spaces. This grant funded the co-creation of this tent with a resettled refugee in the UK, and a co-exhibitor from Jordan. The showcase will be virtual for 2020. British Academy "Tackling the UK's International Challenges" Grant | 2019-2020. Supporting "Lost and Found: Testimonies of Migration, Displacement, and Resettlement." Principal Investigator (Yasmine Shamma), held with co-investigators Vicki Squire and Suzan Ilcan. Led to the creation of the digital archive: www.makinghomeaway.com University of Reading, UK. Diversity and Inclusion (Internal) Grant | 2020 Supporting the running of a Black Lives Matter anti-racisim lecture series for students and faculty, fostering best practices in Diversity and Inclusion. University of Reading. University Endowment Fund (Internal) | 2019 Supporting the running of an arts event, associated with one day symposium on migration. University Arts Council (Internal) | 2019 Supporting the running of a one-day workshop on fostering best practices in Diversity and Inclusion. University of Reading. WIRL-COFUND Junior Research Fellowship | 2017-2019 Supporting "Voices from the Camps": Refugee Senses of Home book project Durham University, UK. US Embassy Grant | July 2018 Supporting “New Work on the New York School” Symposium Birmingham University, UK. Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Creative Activity / Research Grant | 2017 Florida Atlantic University, FL. Seed Grant | 2017 Stanza: (M)apping the Poetry of Place South Florida Cultures Platform Florida Atlantic University, FL. HD Fellowship in American and English Literature | 2016 - 2017 Supporting work towards Joe Brainard's Art Beinecke Library Yale University, CT. Faculty Mentoring Award | 2016 Florida Atlantic University, FL. Faculty Development Award | 2015; 2016 Florida Atlantic University, FL. 2016. Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award | 2016 Florida Atlantic University, FL. Writer in Residence | 2016 Key West Literary Seminar, FL. Teacher and Librarian’s Award | 2016 Key West Literary Seminar, FL. Women's Scholarship | 2013 Code First Academy, City of London, UK. Rausing Scholar | 2009 - 2011 Linacre College Oxford University. Short-Term Visiting Research Fellowship | 2010 Manuscript & Rare Book Library Emory University. Atlanta, Georgia. Meyerstein Travel Grant | 2010 English Faculty, Oxford University, UK. Scholarship | 2009 T.S. Eliot Estate, T.S. Eliot Summer School, University College London, UK. Fellowship and Full Merit Scholarship | 2008 - 2009 Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, Georgetown University, Washington DC. |
