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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."

Ghazal Asif (Johns Hopkins University) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted 3 months of fieldwork in Karachi and Hyderabad, Pakistan. Asif's research was in support of her dissertation which "is concerned with the way religious minorities in Pakistan encounter and recreate...

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...

Zehra Husain was a 2019-2020 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for nine months. Husain's research focuses on Lyari Town, historically home to economic migrants from the Persian Gulf, and seeks to explore how marginalized communities influence national media representations through their...

Rehan Jamil (Brown University) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted 3 months of research in Karachi, Pakistan. Jamil sought to "identify the causal factors that explain why certain settlements [in Karachi] have much higher public goods provision, while others have little...

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."

Brian Bond was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in India for nine months. Bond "examines ways in which Sindhi Sufi poetry performance is used as a tool for imparting Islamic teachings to rural Muslims in Kachchh, Gujarat, a region in western India on the border with Sindh, Pakistan."

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...

Ghazal Asif was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Sindh, Pakistan in the summer of 2019. Asif "was interested in examining the record of the Sindh Scheduled Caste Federation and understanding the role it played during the 1940s when Sindhi leaders joined the...