Karimi’s work featured at the Manning Prize Ceremony, the UMass Club in Boston, 2018.

• The 2023 Helen E. Ellis Grant, Westport Cultural Council. $2500
• The 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities. Summer Stipends. $6000
• The 2022 publication grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. $4000.
• 2022 Provost Fellow, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. $7000
• The 2020-21 Getty Foundation, Connecting Art Histories initiative, to support “Mapping Art. Histories in the Arab World, Iran and Turkey,” (collaborator in a team of 8). $80,000
• The 2021 Millard Meiss Publication Fund from the College Art Association. $5000
• Nominated for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program. UMass Dartmouth, The Chancellor’s Office.
• The 2018 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching. The University of Massachusetts System. $10,000
• 2018 Provost Fellow, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. $7000
• The Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative Targeted Acquisition Grant, in connection with the Society of Architectural Historians and MIT. $6,600
• Visiting Scholar at MIT’s School of Architecture (sabbatical semester).
• Institutional- PI The 2016 UMASS President Creative Economy Initiatives. $25,000
• Shortlisted for Research Centre for Architecture, Theory, Criticism and History, the University of Queensland, Australia, 2016.
• Iran Heritage Foundation Fellowship. London Middle East Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, January 2015-June 2015. $6000
• 2014 Green Award for a Faculty Member, UMass Dartmouth, April 2014.
• Implementation of Blended Learning for the Improvement of Student Learning (IBIS) grant, UMass Dartmouth Davis Educational Foundation Grant projects, 2013-12. $1000
• Service-Learning Faculty Fellows Program, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, 2013-14. $2000
• Nominated for the 2013 Ernest A. Lynton Award. New England Resource Center for Higher Education.
• Institutional- PI The 2012 UMASS President Creative Economy Initiatives Fund $27,000
• The Provost Seminar Series Grant. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2017, 2018. $5000
• Reflective Teaching Practice Award from the Office of Faculty Development, 2012. $1000
• Shortlisted for The Susan and Donald Newhouse External Faculty Fellowship at Wellesley College, Spring 2011 and 2016.
• The Provost Publication Subvention Grant, Office of the Provost, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. December 2010. $1000
• Honorable Mention Citation, Best Ph.D. Dissertation of the Year on a Topic of Iranian Studies, Foundation for Iranian Studies. November 2010.
• Travel Grant, Office of the Provost, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2016. $2000
• The 2010 Scott Opler Grant for Emerging Professionals, The Society of Architectural Historians. December 2009.
• B. Tauris Best Essay Award for Anthropology of Iran. Department of Social Anthropology, the University of St Andrews in association with the I.B. Tauris Publishers (U.K). October 2009. $500
• Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship. American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). September 2008-September 2009. $20,000
• The Barakat Foundation, Dissertation Fellowship. January 2008-August 2008. $8000
• American Association of University Women Educational Foundation (AAUW). International Fellowship. January 2007-December 2007. $18000
• Social Science Research Council (SSRC), International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDFR). Oct 2006-April 2007. $13000
• Presbyterian Historical Society, Research Fellowship Program. Philadelphia. PA. September 2006. $2500
• Harry S. Truman Library Institute, Research Grant. Independence, MO. August 2006. $2000
• Henry Luce Dissertation Fellowship, School of Architecture, the Program in History, Theory, Criticism, MIT. Cambridge, MA. October 2006. $2000
• Historians of Islamic Art and Architecture (HIAA), Travel Grant, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Islamic Department. New York, NY. April 2006. $400
• Hyzen Travel Grant, School of Architecture, the Program in History, Theory, Criticism, MIT. Cambridge, MA. Summer 2005. $500
• Community Service Grant, the Public Service Center: Department of Student Life Programs, MIT. February 2005. $500
• Kelly-Douglas Research Grant, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, MIT. January 2005. $200
• The Aga Khan Student Travel Grant, The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT. Cambridge, MA. Summers 2004 and 2005. $2000
• Institutional-The Council for the Arts Program, Director’s Grant. MIT. Spring 2004. $500
• Avalon Travel Grant, School of Architecture, the Program in History, Theory, Criticism, MIT. Cambridge, MA. November 2003. $500
• The Aga Khan Scholarship for the Study of Islamic Architecture, MIT. Cambridge, MA. 2003-2005.
• Graduate College Award for Interdisciplinary Programs, University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ. Fall 2000 and Spring 2001. $2000