Last month, a team of six staff from the Civic Initiative (a business group of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Donahue Institute) were in Islamabad. They held a three-day follow-up conference for alumni from recent cohorts of the Study of the U.S. Institutes Comparative Public Policymaking program that has been held annually by the Civic Initiative since 2010. The SUSI program is funded by the US Department of State Education and Cultural Affairs Office.
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2023 Short Term Research Grants
Ahmed Afzal
Institution: California State University, Fullerton
Field: Anthropology
Project Title: Ethnographic Study of the Uses of Mobile Social Networking Apps in Urban Pakistan
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Daniel Waqar
Institution: Tufts University
Field: History
Project Title: Governing Crowds: A Study of ‘Unlawful Assembly’ Laws and Social Practices in South Asia, c. 1830s-1970s
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Ijaz Ahmad
Institution: University of Georgia
Field: Higher Education Administration
Project Title: Seeing Beyond Control: Assessing the Impact of the 18th Amendment on Pakistan's Higher Education
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Jonathan Paramore
Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
Field: Linguistics
Project Title: Nasalization in Punjabi and Mankiyali
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Muntazir Ali
Institution: Brown University
Field: Religious Studies
Project Title: Chitral as a ‘tribal’ region: The promise and perils of integration, 1947-1969
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Noor Habib
Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Field: Comparative Literature
Project Title: Remapping Literary Worlds: Miraji’s Urdu Translations of World Poetry
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Omar Gondal
Institution: Washington University in Saint Lewis
Field: Economics
Project Title: Asymmetric information, relational contracts, and prices: Evidence from fresh produce supply chain in Pakistan
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Osama Ahmad
Institution: Brown University
Field: History
Project Title: City of Knowledge: Lahore’s Urdu Bazaar as engine of Print, Urbanity and Self-fashioning
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Sharmeen Mehri
Institution: University at Buffalo, SUNY
Field: English
Project Title: Dr. Dastur Dhalla Library: Mapping Parsi Writing and its Literary Archive in Karachi
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Syed Haider Shahbaz
Institution: University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Field: Comparative Literature
Project Title: Anticolonial Relation: Afro-Asian Solidarity in Urdu Magazines, 1947-1990
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