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Shehram Mokhtar (University of Oregon) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Islamabad and the Tharparker district of Sindh. Mokhtar's research centered around folkloric practices- music, dance, poetry, and storytelling of Pakistani rural culture.

Iqbal Akhtar (Florida International University)was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee who conducted library research in Islamabad on the history of the Kh?j? people and their culture.

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...

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...

Jonathan Paramore was a 2023 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Islamabad for one month. Paramore's research focuses on a study of nasalization in Punjabi and Mankiyali, and highly endangered and understudied language, and how those patterns inform our understanding of...

Aabiya Noman Baqai was a 2022 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Baqai's research focuses on "how Christian women from informal settlements re-orient Islamabad’s claim to a single imagined national identity through the buil...

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

Lubna Chaudhry a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad for 2 months. Chaudhry's research aims to "fill a gap by generating in-depth situated knowledge about Pakistani Christians' multi-dimensional responses to the insecurity and discrimination in their lives."

Amna Qayyum (Princeton University) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted two months of research in Islamabad. Qayyum's research sought to understand postcolonial economic development and policy in Pakistan during the period from 1947 to 1971.