2006-2007 Cornell University Graduate School Sage Fellowship

2005-2006 Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship

2005-2006 Wenner-Gren Foundation Individual Research Grant (DECLINED)

2005-2006 Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) Multi-Country Research Fellowship (DECLINED)

2001-2006 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in Anthropology

Summer 2003 Einaudi Center for International Studies Travel Research Award (China Travel Award)

Summer 2002 Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for Tibetan Language

2001-2 and 2002-3 Academic Year Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for Nepali Language

1999-2000 Fulbright Fellowship At-Large, Nepal

1997 Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University

1997 Magna Cum Laude, Brown University

1997 Bishop McVickar Prize for best honors thesis, Religious Studies, Brown University

1996 Bishop McVickar Prize for best undergraduate paper, Religious Studies, Brown University

1996 Office of International Programs Photo Competition Award, Brown University

1995 Faculty Scholar, Brown University

2007-present Teaching Associate, Cornell-Nepal Study Program, Kathmandu, Nepal

2004Teaching Assistant for Prof. Jane Fajans, Course on Myth, Ritual and Symbol, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University

2000-2001 Founding Member and Research Associate, Digital Himalaya Project Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

1997-1998 Program Coordinator, Sojourn Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

Summer 1997-99 Program Leader, Where There Be Dragons, Nepal and Tibet

1996-1997 Editorial Assistant, Wisdom Publications, Boston, MA

1995 (Aug-Dec) English Teacher, Anandakuti School, Kathmandu, Nepal

1993-1996 Writing Fellow, Rose Writing Fellows Program, Brown University

Summer 1994 Coordinator, Summer Writing Center, Brown University

1991-1992 Curatorial Assistant, National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Nov. 2002 High Asia Photo Exhibit (2 photos included), sponsored by the Himalayan Research Bulletin Littman Gallery, Portland, OR

Sept. 2000 THANGMI: An exhibition of 25 black and white photos Bamboo Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal

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2001 Copy Editor, Among Tibetan Texts, E. Gene Smith, Boston: Wisdom Publications

2000 Contributing Editor, Alpine Pocket Guide to Nepal. Kathmandu: Alpine Travel Service

1998 Copy Editor, re/productions: a journal of the harvard global reproductive health forum. Kathmandu: Harvard Global Reproductive Health Forum

1997. Managing Editor, Ama Adhe, the Voice That Remembers: The Heroic Story of a Woman's Fight to Free Tibet, Joy Blakeslee, Boston: Wisdom Publications

2005 Expert witness for the law firm Baker & McKenzie LLP, Washington, DC for a case regarding Nepali asylum seekers in the US

2000-2001 Evaluator, Chasey Kengtse Bön-po Hostel Project, run by Kids in Need of Education (KINOE) in Lubra, Jharkot VDC, Nepal

2003-present Peer reviewer for Critical Asian Studies, India Review, Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Studies in Nepali History and Society

2006-present Member, Tibetan and Himalayan Library Editorial Board for Community Resources, <thdl.org>

2004 Organizing committee for "The First Annual Graduate Student Conference on South Asia" at Cornell University, March 11-13

2003 Organizing commitee for "Andean and Himalayan Maoist Movements: A Comparative Workshop on Social Conflict in Nepal" at Cornell University, April 13, 2003

2002-2004 Graduate Student Liasion, Executive Council of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

2002-2003 Treasurer, Nepal Association of Cornell

2000-present Advisory Board member, Drokpa, a non-profit organization working in the Himalayas