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Neelam Khoja was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the UK and France for three months. Khoja "inquires how changes in political and nonpolitical power lead to new or reimagined representations of land and space, language and culture, self and community in eighteenth and early...

Gwendolyn Kirk was a 2012-2013 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for 5 months. Kirk's "ethnographic study of the Punjabi-language cinema industry in Lahore, Pakistan--known colloquially as 'Lollywood'--seeks to use the cinema industry as a lens through which to investigate the...

Rajender Kaur was a "2019 participant in the CAORC-AIPS Faculty Development Seminar to Pakistan. In this essay, she discusses the history and legacy of several abandoned Sikh temples (or gurudwara) she visited while in Lahore and Islamabad."

Kiran Ahmed (The University of Texas at Austin) was a 2013 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Sialkot, Lahore, Karachi, and Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Ahmed's pre-dissertation research focused on Urdu popular fiction and how those stories have emerged in contemporary media.

Pei-Ling Huang (Harvard University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Sindh and South Punjab, Pakistan. Pei-Ling Huang is "interested in the Sh?h Jo R?g, the oral musical tradition performed by the faq?rs of Sh?h Lat?f."

SherAli Tareen (Franklin and Marshall College) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee who conducted research in Islamabad, Lahore, and Gujrat, Pakistan. Tareen's research focuses on the discourses of an important but rather understudied Indian Muslim scholar, 'Ubaydullah Sindhi (d. 1944)...

Abbas Jaffer was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore for 5 months. Jaffer seeks to "investigate in particular how digitally-mediated spaces (e.g. social networking sites, video sharing services) establish collectivities of music creators and consumers."

Farhat Haq was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for 4 months. Haq "explores a process, that she calls the "sacralization of the state," whereby governments have selectively used and inserted Islamic law in order to strengthen their political power."

James Pickett (Princeton University) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore to support an upcoming monograph. Picket explores the rise of European protectorates in South Asia and their impacts on society and the state.

Julie Flowerday was a 2012-2013 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for 9 months. Flowerday's research "broadens the discourse of Kashmir, examines colonialism through a mid-level civil servant, and explores the role of deception and history."