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Zarak Sohail was a 2020 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore. Sohail's research "tests the efficacy of a remediation program that provides extra class time to poor performing students from low-income communities in Pakistan and teaches them Math, English, and Urdu...

In Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the ‘educated girl’ to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls for women’s and gi...

Rafeel Wasif (University of Washington) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi. Wasif writes, "This research tries to understand why madrasas as religious NGOs are so reluctant to take government money for their reforms."

Emily Richardson (Columbia University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research on public schools in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Zayad Bangash was a 2019-2020 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in England for two months. Bangash's research focused on the development of military sponsored primary and secondary schools during the late period of the British Empire, what elements of these colonial schools were attractive enough...