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Christopher Finnigan offers a summary on the research project of Andrew Amstutz relating to Buddhism and Pakistan's engagement with its Buddhist history. Amstutz's ongoing research examines how museums in particular have played a crucial role in the development of Buddhist historical narratives in...
Sadia Shirazi was a 2017-18 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the United Kingdom and Spain for three months. Shirazi "explores the largely unexamined history of abstraction and transnational modernism across post-independence Pakistan and India." More specifically, Shirazi also focuses "on key...
Karen Greenwalt was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in London for three months. Greenwalt's argues "that the figure of the migrant facilitates a reconsideration of traditional art historical boundaries."
Samina Iqbal was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad and Lahore for 2 months. Iqbal "investigates and examines the role of the Lahore Art Circle (LAC) in constructing modernist sensibilities and secular trends within the larger nation-building rhetoric of Pakistan from...
Gemma Sharpe (City University of New York) was a 2017 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee. Sharpe's dissertation "places key developments in Pakistani art in their global and institutional contexts. The constellation of exhibitions that provide its archival backbone reveal how Pakistani artists...