Professional Service

• Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. Role: Reviewer for an academic article on Hindi literature. Peer reviewer. 03/18/2020 - 07/01/2020
• Journal of South Asian Studies . Peer reviewer. 08/15/2019 - 09/23/2019
• INALCO. Role: Peer reviewer. Peer reviewing for Proceedings of International Conference on Hindi Studies, INALCO, Paris (2016-2017). 09/15/2016 - 12/31/2017
• Cogent Social Sciences. Role: Peer reviewer. Peer reviewing for Cogent Social Sciences (COGENTSOCSCI - 2016 - 0072). (June 2016). 06/01/2016 - 11/30/2022
• Sage Open Pages. Role: peer reviewer. Invited as peer reviewer for two article manuscripts related to India and Hindi literature in SAGE OPEN PAGES . 10/01/2015 - 10/31/2015
• Harish Trivedi Delhi University. Role: proof-reader/ advisor. Proof-reading and advising for an article: "Muslins and Hindus: Hindi and Urdu for OUP . 03/2013 - 05/2013
• Department of Philosophy . Role: Peer reviewing/proof-reading/advising. Peer reviewing/proof-reading/advising for the “Ethics of Suicide Handbook” (Oxford University Press): by Professor Margaret P. Battin, Distinguished Professor Department of Philosophy & Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities. 01/2013 - 05/2015
• South Asian Studies Association. Role: peer reviewer. Peer reviewer for articles for journal "Exemplar". 01/2013 - 05/30/2014
• South Asian Studies Assiciation. Role: Co-organizer. Co-organizer for SASA VII, April 2013 in SUNY, Albany. 12/2012 - 04/01/2013

Internal Service

• Career Development Committee (CDC). Member, 08/14/2023 - 07/31/2025. College service.
• RPT Ad Hoc committee member for Associate Professor colleague’s fourth year informal review. Committee member, 02/01/2023 - 10/10/2024. Department service.
• CLCS Graduate Admission Committee. Committee member, 02/01/2023 - 02/28/2023. Department service.
• Class observations and writing of peer review reports of colleagues for their RPT-evaluations. 08/22/2022 - 01/01/2023. Department service.
• TAC Committee member. 07/01/2022 - present. Department service.
• WLC Major proposal Committee. 10/01/2020 - 07/01/2021. Department service.
• Graduate Council Program Review Committee. Committee member, 06/03/2020 - 04/01/2021. College service.
• Fulbright TA program . Supervisor, contact person/coordinator , 07/01/2019 - 06/30/2021. Department service.
• The Council of Dee Fellows . 07/01/2019 - 07/01/2020. University service.
• University Research Committee (URC). Reviewer for Application URC Faculty Scholarly Grant Program , 03/07/2019 - 02/22/2020. University service.
• RPT ad hoc committee chair of 7th year formal review. chair, 02/01/2019 - 09/30/2019. Department service.
• Designing and correcting Intermediate level Hindi Language Proficiency test for international student. 01/17/2019 - 01/24/2019. Department service.
• University Research Committee (URC). Reviewer for Application URC Faculty Scholarly Grant Program , 12/17/2018 - 03/07/2019. University service.
• Aziz Atiya Comparative Religion Research Awards Committee. Member, 12/14/2018 - present. College service.
• CLCS. Task Force member , 11/07/2018 - present. Department service.
• Executive Committee. Member, 08/22/2018 - 04/30/2021. Department service.
• Departmental Class Scheduling. Head, 08/01/2018 - 07/01/2021. Department service.
• RPT . Ad Hoc Committee Chair, 03/01/2018 - 10/04/2018. Department service.
• Religious Studies Program. Member on the Steering Committee, 09/26/2017 - 10/31/2018. College service.
• Member of the Council of Dee Fellows. 07/18/2017 - 07/01/2021. University service.
• Co-organizing and facilitating campus visit for Title VI Grant Speakers’ Series: Dr. Harish Trivedi, Delhi University: “Holy Syncretism; Muslim Poets, Hindu Devotion” (April 2017). 04/06/2017 - 04/08/2017. University service.
• Member of College Diversity Committee (2016-2017) . Committee member, 08/18/2016 - 06/30/2018. College service.
• TAC, Peer Reviewer Spring 2017, Fall 2017. Peer reviewer, 08/18/2016 - 05/15/2017. Department service.
• Co-organizing and facilitating campus visit of Dr. Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State University, to present a lecture/scholarly talk “Communal Harmony and Collected Devotion: Pluralism, Secularism and Sufi Shrines” (sponsored by The Asia Centre). Co-organizer, 10/08/2015 - 10/09/2015. University service.
• Co-organizing and facilitating campus visit of Dr. Robert Phillips, Princeton University, to present a lecture/scholarly talk “Hindu Devotional Literature in Urdu: Genre and Trope, Authorship and Audience” (sponsored by The Asia Centre). Co-organizer, 09/17/2015 - 09/18/2015. University service.
• Peer Teaching Reviewer RTP . Class obervations/reports, 04/20/2015 - 08/28/2015. Department service.
• Merit Committee. 03/02/2015 - 03/30/2015. Department service.
• Asia Center University of Utah. Member on FLAS Scholarship Committee. Board Member, 02/2013 - present. College service.
• Asia Center University of Utah. Member on the MA Admissions Committee for Asian Studies. Scholarly Service. Board Member, 02/2013 - present. College service.

Honors & Awards

• Honoree in the Author Category to highlight my book: Essential Hindi Grammar: With Examples from Modern Hindi Literature. Utah Celebrate U, 04/04/2018
• Award to Recognize Excellence in Teaching. Dee Council, 05/03/2017
• International Travel and Research grant. College of Humanities, 04/04/2016
• International Travel and Research Grant to support tenured and tenure-track faculty scholarship conducted or presented in international settings. College of Humanities, 04/2012
• honourable mention for my book "Tracing the boundaries between Hindi and Urdu; Lost and Added in Translation between 20th Century short stories", Brill Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2010" by the Sahitya Academi (India's National Academy of Letters) in India during their yearly conference in February 2012. Reference Harish Trivedi. Sahitya Academi India, 02/2012

In the Media

• My book "Tracing the Boundaries between Hindi and Urdu: Lost and Added in Translation between 20th Century Short Stories" (2010. Leiden:Brill) is referenced and a link to the electronic version of the book included on the web page "Re-Membering Toba Tek Singh: Looking for Manto" . 11/02/2016. https://pulsemedia.org/2012/01/01/re-membering-tob...
• Book review by Nijhawan, Shobna: “Christine Everaert’s Tracing the Boundaries Between Hindi and Urdu” in The Annual of Urdu Studies, 2014, Vol. 29, pp. 27-38. [Peer Reviewed Journal] . 07/01/2014. http://www.urdustudies.com/pdf/29/10NijhawanEverae...