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Farhan Yousaf (University of Connecticut) was s 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who travelled to Punjab, Pakistan, in order to collect data for research pertaining to trafficking in women in Pakistan.

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

Salman Hussain was a 2019 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the United Arab Emirates for five months. Hussain collected information through primarily interview based work to "[document] the process of setting up a small company and the processes and licenses through which a small construction...

Harappa.com is an interactive website offering the most up-to-date information on the ancient history of Pakistan. You can take virtual tours of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, monumental cities of the ancient Indus Civilization (300 BC-1500 BC). The Harappa.com store offers teaching resources including...

SherAli Tareen was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for six months. Tareen "examines intra-Muslim traditions of debate and contestation on critical ethical issues such as the relationship of Islam and democracy, minority rights in Islam, the boundaries of...

Brian Bond was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted one month of ethnomusicological field research in Lahore. In his research, Bond "explored the ways in which k?f? performance serves as a musical means for the transmission of Islamic and Sufi teachings in contemporary...

Drawing upon experience from attending a faculty development seminar in Lahore, Pakistan, Paul Edleman explores the meaning of space and how space is utilized in Lahore. Edleman argues that politics and space can be intertwined in the architecture of a city and the expression of the city's culture.

Syed Akbar Hyder was a 2013-2014 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore for 2 months. Hyder used this fellowship to "to complete an annotated English translation and critical commentary of Shabbir Hasan Khan Josh Malihabadi’s autobiography, Yadon ki barat (Procession of Memories). For the pas...

Rafeel Wasif (University of Washington) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi. Wasif writes, "This research tries to understand why madrasas as religious NGOs are so reluctant to take government money for their reforms."

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.”