Assistant Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, received a Norman Cutler Grant for Research Travels from the UChicago Committee on South Asian Studies. He also received a grant from the UChicago Franke Institute for the Humanities to organize a conference on his research project “A Worldwide Literature: Jāmī (1414–1492) in the Dār al-Islām and Beyond,” which is supported by UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. Additionally, he was awarded a 2013–14 research leave fellowship from the Zukunftsphilologie Berlin.