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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...

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."

Yasmin Saikia was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for 14 weeks. Saikia was able to "examine and document the historical and processual development of azadi (freedom) ideas of Illahi, Sindhi, and Shedai that are of particular relevance in understanding the...

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."

Chai and Coffee episodes are devoted to interviews with both Americans who have traveled to Pakistan and Pakistanis who have traveled to the United States. The conversations are informal and meant to challenge and break down the cultural stereotypes of each country to promote a softer image....

Sahar Khan was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research grant awardee who spent 2 months conducting fieldwork in Lahore and Islamabad. Khan summarizes, "this project analyzes the role of civil institutions in combating Islamist militant and terrorist groups within Pakistan."

William Johnson was a 2012-2013 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for 2 months. Johnson'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...

Andrew Amstutz was a 2012-2013 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad and Lahore for 3 months. Amstutz project makes an "important contribution to the study of Pakistan by examining the promotion of Urdu as a language of trans-regional connection and popular science in Pakistan within a...

Sana Naeem was a 2022 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Peshawar and Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Naeem's research focuses on "khula litigation in the family courts in Peshawar and Islamabad," aiming to "study how these sites witness and influence the making and...

Junaid Rana was a 2018-2019 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan for three months. Rana conducted "preliminary ethnographic research and collect oral histories regarding the life of Dada Amir Haider Khan from 1947 to 1989."