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Filomena Critelli a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad and Lahore for 2 months. Critelli "examines the strategies, methods of intervention and perceived impact of NGO’s that empower women and seek to delimit gender based violence in Pakistan."

Dean Accardi was a 2011-2012 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the UK for 6 months. Accardi's research "investigates the early modern understandings of three Kashmiri saints who continue to hold a prominent place in debates regarding Kashmir’s cultural heritage and social belonging: ‘A...

Sidra Kamran was a 2017 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who explored the "interplay between class, commodification and intimacy" in the rise of beauty salons that cater only to women in Karachi, Pakistan.

Ayesha Masood (Arizona State University) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore, Pakistan. Masood's research focuses on women doctors, the role of gender and sexuality in relation to their work, and their negotiation with their own identities.

Natalya Rahman was a 2021 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in primarily Karachi, Pakistan for three months. Rahman's "outcome variable, i.e., equitable gender attitudes, has direct implications for the nature of women’s political participation in Pakistan, moving beyon...

Farhan Yousaf (University of Connecticut) was s 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who travelled to Punjab, Pakistan, in order to collect data for research pertaining to trafficking in women in Pakistan.

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...

Salman Hussain was a 2019 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the United Arab Emirates for five months. Hussain collected information through primarily interview based work to "[document] the process of setting up a small company and the processes and licenses through which a small construction...

Faris Khan was a 2012-2013 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for 2 months. Khan's project "focuses on how lawyers and non-lawyers alike work with (and within) judicial systems that the international community considers extremely corrupt. It focuses on perceptions and misperceptions of...

Syed Akbar Hyder was a 2013-2014 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore for 2 months. Hyder used this fellowship to "to complete an annotated English translation and critical commentary of Shabbir Hasan Khan Josh Malihabadi’s autobiography, Yadon ki barat (Procession of Memories). For the pas...