Grants:
- Received $20,000 USD from Ohio State University’s Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme’s Special COVID-19 Initiative as the Project Coordinator and Co-PI for The Recovery Project: Actions of Survival, Archives of Resilience, The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Currently
- Received $400 USD from the Ohio State University’s Political Science Department to organize a visiting lectureship featuring Dr. Shokoufeh Sakhi from the Queen Mary University of London, U.K.
- Received $250 USD from the Ohio State University’s Dance Department to organize a dance and disability choreography workshop featuring Dr. Rachel da Silveira Gorman from York University, Toronto, Canada.
- Received $1000 USD from the Ohio State University’s Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme, Migration, Mobility, and Immobility to present a collaborative project on Research Methods in Migration Studies with my fellow postdoctoral scholars on January 30, 2019.
- Received $1500 USD from the Ohio State University’s Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme’s Migration, Mobility, and Immobility as part of their Activist/scholar/activist in residence funding program to bring Dr. Rachel da Silva Gorman from York University, Toronto, Canada to the Ohio State University in Spring 2020 to give a lecture, entitled “Grieving Empire: Affect, Aliens, Disablement, and Aesthetic Catharsis.”
- Received $1000 USD from the Ohio State University’s Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme, Migration, Mobility, and Immobility to as part of the MMI Undergraduate Research and Mentorship Grant to supervise an undergraduate research project entitled, “The Effects of Mobility on Therapy Performance in Children with Down Syndrome” in Spring 2019
- Received $5000 USD from the Ohio State University’s Mershon Center for International Security Studies to organize a conference on Refugee Mental Health in Spring 2020
Research and Teaching Awards
- Awarded the 33rd Annual Faculty and Staff Recognition as “The Ohio State University’s best for making a difference in the lives of their students” (Nominated (2022) by SPHINX Senior Class Honorary at Ohio State University and)
- Honorable Mention for the Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies as part of Society for Disability Studies’ Annual Awards for the paper entitled “Silent Global and Oppressive Local: Fetishization of the Disabled War Veterans in Iran through the Ideological Construction of “Living Martyrs.”
- OISE/UT Graduate Funding, Fall 2015; Winter, 2016
- UTAPS Award, Winter 2016
- Awarded the Roxana Ng Memorial Scholarship in Equity at OISE/UT, April 2016
- Awarded the 2016-17 Ontario Graduate Scholarship at OISE/UT
- Academic Excellence Award from University of Toronto for 2016-17
- Awarded ThreeOISE Fellowship from University of Toronto for 2017-18
- OISE Graduate Students Conference Travel Program, Winter 2018
- Awarded OISE Graduate Students Conference Travel Program, Spring 2018
- Awarded “First Generation in Canadian Universities” Bursary in 2009 at York University
- Awarded Graduate Student Tuition Grant at York University in 2012
- Awarded Graduate Student Tuition Grant at York University in 2013
- MA Thesis on Power Relations in Psychiatric Institutions in a Marxist Framework: An Anti-Racist Anti-Colonial Approach(Sep2013)
- Awarded The Penelope Jane Glasser Graduate Scholarship in Woman Studies and Feminist Research at York University (April 2013)
- Nominated for The Master Research Paper Human Rights Prize at the Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University (Sep 2013)
- “South-Asian Women in Partition” Memory Poster, in exhibition at York University Ross Building under Prof. Shobna Nijhawan’s supervision and request from February 2013 to May 2013
- Awarded University of Toronto Graduate Grant, September 2014
- Awarded University of Toronto Graduate Grant, September 2015
- SGS Conference Grant-SOC. SCI & HUM, Summer 2015
- OISE Graduate Students Conference Travel Program, Summer 2015
Sona Kazemi, PhD 