Postdoctoral fellowship, Columbia University, January 2002 to date.

Senior ISITA research fellowship, Northwestern University, Evanston, Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa, Fall 2001.

Postdoctoral fellowship, Yale University, September 2000 - May 2001.

Resident fellowship, The Rockefeller Foundation. Center of Bellagio, Italy (November-December 1999).

Grant from the Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa (Codesria) to fund library research at Northwestern University, Evanston (September 1999)

Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, the University of London (November 1996- August 1997).

Visiting research fellowship, Michigan State University, Project Muslim Societies in West Africa Under French Colonial Rule, August 1995.

Grant from a National Endowment for the Humanities funded Project "Muslim Societies in West Africa Under French Colonial Rule," to fund field research in West Africa in 1993.

Grant from the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris, France, to partially fund field research in Nigeria in 1991 .

Grant from the "Fundamentalism Project" administered by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to fund field research in Nigeria in 1990.

Grant from the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris and the British Academy in London, to fund library research in London in 1990.

Grant from the Senegalese Ministry of Education to fund dissertation field research in Nigeria in 1989.