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Hashim Ali was a 2021 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research at the Punjab Archives in Lahore, Pakistan for two months. Ali's research focused on the separation of students during the times of colonization as a way to establish "historical context for the formation of...

Mubbashir Rizvi was a 2011-2012 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan. Rizvi's research looks at "the planning of D.G Canal Project, the Colony Thal Textile Mill as two formative projects carried out by the Thal Development Authority."

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...

Gemma Sharpe (City University of New York) was a 2017 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee. Sharpe's dissertation "places key developments in Pakistani art in their global and institutional contexts. The constellation of exhibitions that provide its archival backbone reveal how Pakistani artists...

Zain Mian was a 2020 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research on Lahori media for ten weeks. Mian "worked in close collaboration with the GC University archives, which house the entire print run of Nuq?sh, a significant post-Partition literary magazine then edited by Ahmed...

Ilma Qureshi was a 2021 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Lahore, Pakistan for one month. Qureshi was able "to conduct archival work, acquire rare manuscripts, and establish scholarly and professional contacts within Pakistan."

Chad Haines was a 2019 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for one month. Haines' research included intentions to "interview key members of minority communities (academics, NGO/civil society activists, and religious leaders); undertake historical archival research; interview and observe...

Jennifer Dubrow was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Lahore, Pakistan for about six weeks. Dubrow worked mainly at the Nuqush Center at Government College University while also conducting interviews, consulting archives at the Punjab Public Library, giving...

Jennifer Dubrow was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted archival research in Lahore for her book, "Voicing Dissent: Urdu Literary Modernism and the Progressive Writers in 20th-century South Asia."

Ahsan Kamal (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted fieldwork in Lahore, Islamabad, and Turbat, Pakistan. Kamal's research contributed to the discourse of water politics and the complex experiences surrounding water and policy in...