Meena Khandelwal (with Fred Smith, Religious Studies) has been awarded the FY20 Provost’s Global Forum Award funded by the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization for their proposal "The Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi at 150: Nonviolence, Race, and Politics."

Jeongeun Lee has been awarded a 2019 Dillingham Award from the Central States Anthropological Society. The Beth Wilder Dillingham Award aids young scholars in anthropology with dependent children.