2007. Orin Williams Fund (Division of the Social Sciences). University of Chicago. One month research trip to Bolivia.
2002-2003. Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program. Twelve months of dissertation research in Bolivia
1998-2001. Title VI Fellowship (FLAS). Study of Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Chicago.
2000. University of Chicago Center for Latin American Studies Research Grant. Three month pre-field research in Bolivia
1998, 1999. Tinker Field Research Grants, University of Chicago. Masters thesis and pre-dissertation research in La Paz, Bolivia
1998, 1999. Summer Title VI Fellowship (FLAS). Aymara study at the Centro Bartolomé de las Casas in Cuzco, Peru (1998), and Aymara study at the University of Chicago (1999)
2007 Marion R. & Adolph J. Lichtstern Fund Travel Grant. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. Travel to American Anthropology Association Meeting.
2005 Doolittle-Harrison Fellowship. University of Chicago. Expenses, 2005 American Anthropology Association Meeting.
2005 Lichtstern Fund Travel Grant. Travel to the American Anthropology Association Meeting.
1994. Weissman International Internship Program, Harvard College. Funded internship with the SR-CRSP in La Paz, Bolivia