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Luther Obrock (University of Pennsylvania) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee. Obrock conducted research at the Punjab University in Lahore to support his research in Pakistan which "concentrates on the Indus River as a major conduit of elite groups between the twelfth and the...

Samina Iqbal was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad and Lahore for 2 months. Iqbal "investigates and examines the role of the Lahore Art Circle (LAC) in constructing modernist sensibilities and secular trends within the larger nation-building rhetoric of Pakistan from...

William Sherman was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow who conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for four weeks. "Focusing primarily on the religious imaginations Bayazid Ansari and the Rawshaniyya, this project draws upon manuscript sources in order to trace the development and transformation of...

Maria-Magdalena Fuchs (Princeton University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted two months of research in Lahore, Pakistan. Fuchs' research centers on "how Muslim associations (so-called Anjumans) contributed to the creation of an Urdu public sphere in late colonial...

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...

Fatima Quraishi (New York University) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who visited "funerary monuments and museum collections in Lahore as part of her dissertation research on the vast Makli necropolis, located in the Indus river delta region in Sindh."

In this episode of New Books in Islamic Studies, host SherAli Tareen sits down with Claire Pamment to discuss her book, "Comic Performance in Pakistan: The Bh?nd" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Pamment's book "centers on the Punjabi folk art of the Bh?nd, or comic performance. Pamment explores the...

Rajbir Judge was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the UK, India, and Hungary for five months. Judge "examines the key alliances the Theosophical Society formed between Sikhs in the Punjab through the narrative of Maharaja Duleep Singh."

Maira Hayat (University of Chicago) was a 2013 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan relating to water politics, specifically the community response to the New Lahore Ravi Megaproject

Shabana Mir (American Islamic College, Chicago) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in the summer of 2016 in Lahore, Pakistan. Mir's research focused on " experiences and trajectories of Pakistani faculty in terms of how employment is obtained, how professional...