2022	UCONN, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
2019	American Sociological Association: Jessie Bernard Award
2019	UCONN, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Research Excellence award.
2018	Sociologists for Women in Society: Feminist Mentoring award.
2017	Fulbright-Nehru Senior Professional Excellence award.
2016	Fulbright-Nehru Senior Professional Excellence award.
2016	American Sociological Association/Asia and Asian American Section’s Contributions to the Field (career) award.
2013	Hirabayashi Book Award for co-edited Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the US (Human Rights Section of American Sociological Association).
2012	UCONN, Department of Sociology Graduate Students’ Award for Mentoring.
2011	Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority’s Phenomenal Woman award.
2010	UCONN Alumni Association Teaching Excellence Award.
2009	American Sociological Association, Asia and Asian American Section Teaching Award.
2009	Department of Sociology Graduate Students’ Award for Mentoring.
2007	Department of Sociology Graduate Students’ Award for Mentoring.
2004	State of Connecticut, General Assembly citation on Immigrant Day for Achievement, leadership, and contributions to the State of Connecticut.  (additional citations from the Governor and Lieutenant Governor)
2004	UCONN-Women’s Center-Women of Color Award
2001	AAUP Excellence award for Teaching Promise.  (Additional Citation from  the CT General Assembly)
Other awards and honors.	Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Beta Kappa. S.H.E Force Foundation award (South Africa); Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Beta Kappa, National (Merit) Scholarship awarded by the Government of India; Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta (for the highest marks in Geography at the Master’s Level); Jubilee Merit Prize for the highest marks in Geography from the University of Calcutta; Scindia Gold Medal and the Gwalior Book prize for the highest marks among all BA students of Calcutta University. Rhodes Scholarship finalist (1976, 1977).

Grants & Fellowships

2020-2023	Social Science Research Council award, Co-PI, on Migrants and Precarity.
2017	Global Religion Research Initiative grant for international collaboration. (with Anjana Narayan).
2017	SWS Social Action grant (with Anjana Narayan).
2016	FIRE/UCONN grant for research on immigrants in CT (with Marysol Asencio).
2016	FIRE/UCONN grant to travel to India (for preliminary research on Water, “Inequalities, Rights).
2014	American Institute for Pakistan Studies grant for travel to and short-term research in Pakistan.
2014	UCONN development grant for developing an online course.
2010	Spencer Foundation with Gaye Tuchman
2009	University of Chicago-Illinois, small grant for work on women in the informal economy