External support
Research, library acquisition, teaching, and other grants

Postdoctoral research fellowship  |  National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
This award enabled research and writing that resulted in the publication of my first book.

Library grant  |  The Institute of Turkish Studies
As a Co-PI for this award, we were able to acquire materials in Turkey that contributed to the Comic Art Collection, Michigan State University Libraries.

Halide Edıb Adıvar Scholarship  |  Turkish Studies Association (now Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association)
The award of this scholarship in my initial years as a doctoral student enabled my travel to Turkey. This trip permitted me to collect records not only on the early Turkish feminist that this scholarship is named for (i.e., Halide Edıb Adıvar); I also acquired the majority of primary documents that I would use for my dissertation.

Internal support awarded by Michigan State University
Research, teaching, and other grants

Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP) award  |  Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies
A HARP Development award provided funds to support research and writing that is contributing to publications on the social and political histories of alcohol and drinking in Ottoman and republican Turkey.

Strategic Partnership grants  |  Center for Gender in a Global Context (GenCen)
These awards funded the establishment of research and instructional linkages with universities in Turkey.

Summer Research and Course Release grants  |  Muslim Studies Program
Receipt of several of these awards enabled research and writing on Ottoman education, the early republic's abolishment of the Caliphate, and public health issues in imperial and republican years.

International Development Research Initiation Grant (IDRIG)  |  CASID/GenCen
After my first year at MSU, I was able to expand my research on education and schooling in the late Ottoman years to include collections that engaged with the particular roles of girls and women in the educational dynamics of the empire.

Course Development grants  |  CASID/GenCen
Early in my career at MSU, I received support to teach courses on education, development and modernization, and women and girls in Islamic societies.

Support awarded as a graduate student
Scholarships, grants, and assistantships

Graduate tuition scholarship  |  Department of History
Thanks to the graduate tuition scholarships that I received, I was able to complete my dissertation while living away from the campus community.

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) scholarships  |  Center for Middle Eastern Studies
As a graduate student at the University of Arizona, I was able to study both Arabic and Persian at advanced levels thanks to numerous FLAS scholarships.

Teaching assistantships and instructorships |  Departments of History and of Near Eastern Studies
As a graduate student in the U.S., my first instructional responsibilities came with teaching assistantship and eventually instructorship responsibilities for courses dealing with the Middle East, Islam, and women's studies. I also taught sections of introductory, intermediate, and advanced Turkish. I enjoyed these opportunities to work and develop first at the University of Arizona and later at other campuses, as well.