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Mohammad Waqas Sajjad was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Sajjad's doctoral research focuses on Deobandi and Barelvi discourses regarding this important conflict in Sunni Islam in South Asia.

Alexis Saba was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who "traveled to Pakistan for six weeks for the purpose of conducting preliminary dissertation research in Islamabad on educational narratives and discourses within development, philanthropic, and non-governmental sectors."

Muntasir Sattar was a 2013-2014 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad for 4 months. Sattar conducts an "ethnographic study of the transition of young men as they complete their undergraduate degrees and move on to full time employment in the formal economy."

SherAli Tareen was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for six months. Tareen "examines intra-Muslim traditions of debate and contestation on critical ethical issues such as the relationship of Islam and democracy, minority rights in Islam, the boundaries of...

Cabeiri deBergh Robinson was a 2013-2014 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad for 4 months. Robinson's project "responds to empirical changes in Azad Jammu and Kashmir in the context of a complex humanitarian emergency set within the on-going Kashmir Conflict and the weaknesses of...

Syed Eisar Haider was a 2022 Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Haider's research focuses on "the role of global pilgrimage with respect to the religious practice in everyday life of Shia Muslims in Pakistan."

Rafeel Wasif (University of Washington) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi. Wasif writes, "This research tries to understand why madrasas as religious NGOs are so reluctant to take government money for their reforms."

Sarah Khan was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research grant awardee. Khan "spent two months in Lahore and Islamabad conducting interviews and collecting research materials for her dissertation, “Combating Violent Islamist Proxies: The Role of Civil Institutions in Pakistan.”

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.