Browse Resources

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...

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...

Asif Sandeelo was a 2022 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Karachi, Pakistan for two months. Sandeelo's research focused on "power dynamics in nature conservation through a case study of Taloor

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.

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...

Gemma Sharpe (City University of New York) was a 2017 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee. Sharpe's dissertation "places key developments in Pakistani art in their global and institutional contexts. The constellation of exhibitions that provide its archival backbone reveal how Pakistani artists...

Shehram Mokhtar was a 2018 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who lived with a hijra household in Karachi for two months to learn about community structure and cultural practices.