ealmasy Sundas Amer (PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin) was a 2020 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Pakistan for two months. Read the final report and more here.
Starting in January 2023, Cambridge University Press will publish a new interdisciplinary journal, Critical Pakistan Studies. The journal is a joint launch between CUP and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS); the University of Exeter South Asia Centre, UK; and Le Centre d ‘Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS), France. Critical Pakistan … Read more
Dr. Paul Edleman (Sauk Valley Community College), Prof. Farah Habib (Bristol Community College), and Dr. Robert Soza (Mesa Community College) facilitated an AIPS-sponsored workshop titled “Inter-Disciplinary Integration of Social Science & Humanities in Pedagogy and Curriculum Development at Skills Building Educational Institutions. This professional development initiative brought together US and Pakistan-based community college, skills college, … Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Nosheen Ali for receiving the 2022 AIPS Book Prize for her book titled Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier! The Book Prize Committee writes that Dr. Ali's work "…advanced how the field thinks about the War on Terror, and how citizens in Gilgit-Baltistan negotiate and respond to the unique … Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Dr. Michael Hirsch who were recently elected to the AIPS At-Large Executive Committee! Dr. Mehta is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and of Religion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She works on the evolution and synthesis of modernity; nationalism, religious revival, cinema and the post-global nation … Read more
Every two years, AIPS hosts an Emerging Scholars Pakistan Studies Symposium (previously known as the AIPS Junior Scholars Conference) in conjunction with the Annual Conference on South Asia. Graduate Students who are enrolled in a PhD program in a US academic institution and have ABD status are encouraged to apply. Post-Doctoral candidates who completed their … Read more
AIPS Member Dr. Audrey Truschke, publishes book, Culture of Encounters Sanskrit at the Mughal Court
Dear Colleagues and Friends, It is with much sadness that I share this news. Intizar Husain—the author of numerous short stories, several novels, essayist and much more passed away on February 3, 2016 in Lahore about a short illness. He was 93. His works were compiled in STORY IS A VAGABOND, AIPS supported summer 2015 … Read more
AIPS is Co-Sponsering the Karachi Literary Festival, February 5-7, 2016
Co-edited volume by AIPS President, Professor Kamran Asdar Ali