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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...

Fatima Tassadiq was a 2019-2020 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for two months. Tassadiq's research focused on the impact of the construction of the Orange Line Metro Train, the first metro train of its kind in Pakistan, on local communities in Lahore, Pakistan, investigating the...

Maria-Magdalena Fuchs (Princeton University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted two months of research in Lahore, Pakistan. Fuchs' research centers on "how Muslim associations (so-called Anjumans) contributed to the creation of an Urdu public sphere in late colonial...

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...

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."

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

Shabana Mir (American Islamic College, Chicago) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in the summer of 2016 in Lahore, Pakistan. Mir's research focused on " experiences and trajectories of Pakistani faculty in terms of how employment is obtained, how professional...

Sundas Amer was a 2020 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Amer's research focuses on " the historical relationship between Iran and the Indian subcontinent and the close ties between Persian and Urdu language and...

Shuyan Huang was a 2024 Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Islamabad and Lahore for two weeks. Huang's research focuses on Chinese public diplomacy/propaganda efforts in Pakistan and what kind of effects Chinese State-Sponsored news and information have in changing people's...

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...