Major Competitions
National Humanities Center Research Fellowship, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2002-03.
Rockefeller Fellowship, Islam and Globalization, Kluge Center, Library of Congress, 2002-03.
Fulbright Lectureship, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1997-1998.
Research Grant, National Science Foundation, Law and Social Science Division, Global Perspectives on Sociologic Studies Program, "An Ethnographic Analysis of the Impact of Globally Significant Ideologies on Legal Consciousness and Gender Relations," 1992-94.
Doctoral Fellowship, American Bar Foundation, 1988-90.
Doctoral Fellowship, Northwestern University Law and Social Science Program, 1987-88.
Charlotte W. Newcomb Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1987-88.
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Advanced Intensive Swahili), Michigan State University, Summer 1985.
University competitions
Faculty grant, Wesleyan University, for participation in faculty seminar on Intersectionality and Pedagogy, 2001-02.
Project grant, Wesleyan University, for research on the Embassy Bombings trial, 2001.
Seed Project grant, Wesleyan University, for development of "Being and Becoming Human" (ANTH 101), 1999.
Faculty Fellowship, Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities, Fall 1998.
Pedagogical grant, Wesleyan University, Development of videos and collection of materials from Tanzania for "Challenges to African Societies in the Age of Globalization."1997-98.
Project grant, Wesleyan University, "Legal Consciousness at the 1996 Gender Studies Conference in Tanzania," 1996.
Course development grant, Wesleyan University, Leonard Halpert Freedom of Expression Grant, for development of "Discourse and Legal Processes," 1995.
Faculty Fellowship, Wesleyan University, Center for the Humanities, 1993.
Project development grant, Wesleyan University, "An Ethnographic Analysis of the Impact of Globally Significant Ideologies on Legal Consciousness and Gender Relations," 1992.
Course development grant, Wesleyan University, Ford Foundation--Multicultural Perspectives in the Curriculum, with Gage Averill and Steven Gregory, 1991.
Dissertation Travel Award, Duke University Graduate School, 1987.
Dissertation Research Support, Shell-Duke University International Studies Center, 1984.
Research Grant, Duke University-University of North Carolina Women's Studies Research Center, Summer 1983.