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Sayyeda Zehra Razvi was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore for 2 months. Razvi's "project aims to identify the critical possibilities offered by the intersection of storytelling and collective memory in the short stories of the Urdu writer Intizar Husain (b. 1925)."

Osama Ahmad was a 2023 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Lahore for one month. Ahmad's research focuses on Urdu print culture in mid-nineteenth century colonial Lahore and how it led to the formation of the Urdu Bazaar, which endures today.

Hamza Iqbal was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Karachi, Pakistan at Habib University about contemporary Urdu poet Jaun Elia. Iqbal "conducted over 15 in-depth interviews with individuals as well as received access to Ismaili Tariqah Board library which Jaun...

Daniel Majchrowicz was a 2012-2013 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in London for 2 months. Majchrowicz's research interrogates "the place of travel and travel writing in the negotiation of socio-political debate and subjectivity in colonial South Asia and contemporary Pakistan."

Hamza Iqbal was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant who conducted research in Karachi, Pakistan in Summer 2019. Iqbal was able to "visit and interview several friends and family members of the contemporary Urdu poet, Jaun Elia. He conducted over 15 in-depth interviews with individuals as well as...

Shehram Mokhtar (University of Oregon) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Islamabad and the Tharparker district of Sindh. Mokhtar's research centered around folkloric practices- music, dance, poetry, and storytelling of Pakistani rural culture.

Sundas Amer was a 2020 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Amer's research focuses on " the historical relationship between Iran and the Indian subcontinent and the close ties between Persian and Urdu language and...

Noor Habib was a 2023 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for six months. Habib's research focuses on the work of the Urdu modernist poet Miraji, exploring both his work which represents radical, contrarian politics and his translations which offered...

Kiran Ahmed (The University of Texas at Austin) was a 2013 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Sialkot, Lahore, Karachi, and Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Ahmed's pre-dissertation research focused on Urdu popular fiction and how those stories have emerged in contemporary media.

Safoora Arbab (UCLA) was a 2013 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Peshawar and Islamabad, Pakistan to learn from newly found 'Pakhtun' journal copies.