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Sahar Khan was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research grant awardee who spent 2 months conducting fieldwork in Lahore and Islamabad. Khan summarizes, "this project analyzes the role of civil institutions in combating Islamist militant and terrorist groups within Pakistan."

William Johnson was a 2012-2013 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for 2 months. Johnson's project "focuses on how lawyers and non-lawyers alike work with (and within) judicial systems that the international community considers extremely corrupt. It focuses on perceptions and...

Andrew Amstutz was a 2012-2013 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad and Lahore for 3 months. Amstutz project makes an "important contribution to the study of Pakistan by examining the promotion of Urdu as a language of trans-regional connection and popular science in Pakistan within a...

Junaid Rana was a 2018-2019 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan for three months. Rana conducted "preliminary ethnographic research and collect oral histories regarding the life of Dada Amir Haider Khan from 1947 to 1989."

Sara Singha (Georgetown University) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee who conducted fieldwork in Lahore and Punjab, Pakistan. Singha's research was in support of her ethnography on Christianity and class.

Ayesha Masood (Arizona State University) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore, Pakistan. Masood's research focuses on women doctors, the role of gender and sexuality in relation to their work, and their negotiation with their own identities.

Zarak Sohail was a 2020 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore. Sohail's research "tests the efficacy of a remediation program that provides extra class time to poor performing students from low-income communities in Pakistan and teaches them Math, English, and Urdu...

Maira Hayat was a 2019-2020 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for five months. Hayat's research focused on the Punjab Irrigation bureaucracy, agriculturalists, and development practitioners, seeking to understand why a specific World Bank project failed and how Irrigation officials make...

Ahmed Afzal was a 2023 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, and Lahore for two months. Afzal's research focuses on the uses of Grindr, a mobile social networking app, among gay and bisexual men in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, and Lahore.

Sohaib Khan was a 2018 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore. Khan studies "the financial rationalization of the Shari?‘a by conducting a textual and ethnographic study of the interactive labors between Mufti?s and financial engineers."