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Shahnaz Rouse was a 2011-2012 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for two months. Rouse "examines the physical, social, and ideational landscape of Lahore from 1849-1947." The project explicates how space and sociability relate to each other.

Dr. Iqbal Akhtar moderated the 2022 FIU Mahavir Jayanti Lecture & Award Ceremony. The Mahavir Jayanti lecture "highlighted contemporary research being done in Pakistan to explore the country's Jain heritage leading scholars." The lecture and subsequent awards ceremony were recorded and are available...

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)."

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."

Omar Gondal was a 2023 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Okara and Lahore for three months. Gondal's research uses a novel field experiment to explore how introducing a new technology to potato farmers affects informal bargaining and contracting between farmers and...

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....

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.

This article traces (dis)continuities in colonial logics across disjunctures of decolonisation and democratisation through a large infrastructure project in contemporary Lahore, Pakistan. Analysing Lahore’s Orange Line Metro Train, a project constructed under China Pakistan Economic Corrido...