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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...

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."

Sohaib Khan (Columbia University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan. Khan's research focused on the Deobandis of Pakistan and their capitalistic inroads through Islamic banking and finance

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...

Brian Bond was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted one month of ethnomusicological field research in Lahore. In his research, Bond "explored the ways in which k?f? performance serves as a musical means for the transmission of Islamic and Sufi teachings in contemporary...

Drawing upon experience from attending a faculty development seminar in Lahore, Pakistan, Paul Edleman explores the meaning of space and how space is utilized in Lahore. Edleman argues that politics and space can be intertwined in the architecture of a city and the expression of the city's culture.

Syed Akbar Hyder was a 2013-2014 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore for 2 months. Hyder used this fellowship to "to complete an annotated English translation and critical commentary of Shabbir Hasan Khan Josh Malihabadi’s autobiography, Yadon ki barat (Procession of Memories). For the pas...