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Chad Haines was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore for 1.5 months. Haines's research "interweaves three arenas of analysis, each reflecting a particular tension of urbanity: formality vs. informality; control vs. disruptions; and front spaces vs. back spaces."

Muntazir Ali was a 2020 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Peshawar and Chitral in the summer and fall of 2021. Ali's work created "a crucial initial glimpse into the rich and complex meanings of place, the various modes of place-making, and how place has been invested...

CultureTalk features video clips of interviews and discussions with people from many different countries and of many different ages and walks of life. Some interviews and discussions are in English; more are in languages other than English. Translations and/or transcripts are given for all...

Sara Singha (Georgetown University) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee who conducted fieldwork in Lahore and Punjab, Pakistan. Singha's research was in support of her ethnography on Christianity and class.

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.

Sohaib Khan (Columbia University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan. Khan's research focused on the Deobandis of Pakistan and their capitalistic inroads through Islamic banking and finance

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...

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...

Suneel Kumar was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research on the Indus River and delta for two months. Kumar collected data through traveling to different creeks, villages, working with fishermen and interviewing multiple government and non-government officials.

Azfar Nisar (Arizona State University) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Lahore for 2 months. Nisar's research centered on the Hijra community, specifically the intersection of citizenship, identity, and inclusion in society.