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Ahsan Kamal was a 2018 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who performed research in Pakistan to study the resettlement programs as a result of dam constructions.

Zoya Sameen (University of Chicago) was a 2017 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted 3 months of research fieldwork in Lahore, Karachi, and Quetta. Sameen sought to explore the "engagement between sex buyers and sex markets, and to understand the role of buying clienteles in effecting...

Ghazal Asif was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Sindh, Pakistan in the summer of 2019. Asif "was interested in examining the record of the Sindh Scheduled Caste Federation and understanding the role it played during the 1940s when Sindhi leaders joined the...

Maira Hayat offers this critical analysis of the tensions relating to water use and local politics from an anthropological standpoint. Water use in Pakistan has become increasingly politicized as local governments attempt to navigate the needs of local cultivators and farmers while reconciling with...

Suneel Kumar was s 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee. Kumar "travelled to Pakistan during summer 2019 to conduct preliminary research for an upcoming ethnographic work and collect ecological data on Indus river and delta."

Ali Mehdi Zaidi was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research within communities in Pakistan. Zaidi's work aimed to study "an ethnography of a drug rehabilitation center in Alamdar Road, Quetta."

Erum Haider was a 2018 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Karachi in the summer of 2018. Haider "used mixed methods to examine the transformation of citizenship in Pakistan’s largest city as public goods and utilities are increasingly handed over to private actors. I...

Faris Khan explores the recent activism of the 'Khwaja Sira,' a group of gender nonconforming people with cultural significance. Khan explores the recent gains made in the legal rights of the Kwaja Sira and how activism has shaped the movement into society.

Salman Hussain (University of Michigan) was a 2017 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee who spent 3 months in Pakistan exploring the "connections between the everyday life of this provincial city and gendered, transnational migrations."

Anita Weiss (University of Oregon) discusses her new book, "Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan: Local Actions, Local Voices." Dr. Weiss explores how local leaders are speaking out against violent extremism that has permeated Pakistani culture over the past decade.