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Awards


PEN 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.
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