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Sarah Khan was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research grant awardee. Khan "spent two months in Lahore and Islamabad conducting interviews and collecting research materials for her dissertation, “Combating Violent Islamist Proxies: The Role of Civil Institutions in Pakistan.”

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.

Shahla Haeri was a 2015-16 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for two months. Haeri writes: "In this trip I was able to conduct several high level interviews regarding Benazir Bhutto’s family life and upbringing, politics and leadership. I am interested in the politica...

Aabiya Noman Baqai was a 2022 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Baqai's research focuses on "how Christian women from informal settlements re-orient Islamabad’s claim to a single imagined national identity through the buil...

In this podcast episode, host SherAli Tareen sits down with Anita Weiss to discuss her book, "Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women's Rights in Pakistan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). "By exploring how multiple state and non-state actors have engaged the question of gender and women's rights over...

In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host Shobhana Xavier sits down with Shahla Haeri to discuss her book, "The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority, and Gender" (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Haeri's book serves as a biography of the various Muslim women...

In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host Elizabeth Heineman sits with Yasmin Saikia to discuss her book, "Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971" (Duke University Press, 2011). Saikia's work explores "the humanity lost, and humanity reclaimed, by women...

Zehra Husain was a 2019 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Karachi, Pakistan for nine months. Husain "conducted participant observations at boxing clubs, accompanied reporting assignments of journalists who were covering sports events and also interviewed journalists who have been writing news...

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...

Shehram Mokhtar was a 2018 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who lived with a hijra household in Karachi for two months to learn about community structure and cultural practices.