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Rajender Kaur was a "2019 participant in the CAORC-AIPS Faculty Development Seminar to Pakistan. In this essay, she discusses the history and legacy of several abandoned Sikh temples (or gurudwara) she visited while in Lahore and Islamabad."

Noor Habib was a 2023 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for six months. Habib's research focuses on the work of the Urdu modernist poet Miraji, exploring both his work which represents radical, contrarian politics and his translations which offered...

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.

SherAli Tareen (Franklin and Marshall College) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee who conducted research in Islamabad, Lahore, and Gujrat, Pakistan. Tareen's research focuses on the discourses of an important but rather understudied Indian Muslim scholar, 'Ubaydullah Sindhi (d. 1944)...

Abbas Jaffer was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore for 5 months. Jaffer seeks to "investigate in particular how digitally-mediated spaces (e.g. social networking sites, video sharing services) establish collectivities of music creators and consumers."

Farhat Haq was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for 4 months. Haq "explores a process, that she calls the "sacralization of the state," whereby governments have selectively used and inserted Islamic law in order to strengthen their political power."

James Pickett (Princeton University) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore to support an upcoming monograph. Picket explores the rise of European protectorates in South Asia and their impacts on society and the state.

Julie Flowerday was a 2012-2013 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for 9 months. Flowerday's research "broadens the discourse of Kashmir, examines colonialism through a mid-level civil servant, and explores the role of deception and history."

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...

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...