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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2014 Short-Term Research Grants
Funded by Public Affairs Section, American Embassy, Islamabad, Pakistan
Iqbal Akhtar
Field: Religious Studies
Project Title: Medieval Conversion Khōjā Caste to Islam in the Perso-Indian Corridor
Affiliated Institution: Florida International University
Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Sohaib Khan
Field: Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Project Title: Untitled research on the Deobandis of Pakistan and their capitalistic inroads through Islamic banking and finance
Affiliated Institution: Columbia University
Location: Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan
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Sahar Naqvi
Field: Religious Studies
Project Title: Creating Counter Narratives to Sectarianism and Hate Speech in Pakistan: An NGO's Efforts to Provide Alternative Avenues of Exchange Via Arts and Dialogue
Affiliated Institution: Florida International University
Location: Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Emily Richardson
Field: Education Policy and Planning
Project Title: Untitiled research on public schools in Pakistan
Affiliated Institution: Columbia University
Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
SherAli Tareen
Field: Religious Studies
Project Title: Revolutionary Hermeneutics: Narratives of Emancipation in Modern South Asian Islam
Affiliated Institution: Franklin and Marshall College
Location: Islamabad, Lahore, and Gujarat, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Funded on Unrestricted/Other Funds
Maria-Magdalena Fuchs
Field: Modern South Asia
Project Title: Muslim Associations in Colonial Punjab and the Creation of an Urdu Public Sphere
Affiliated Institution: Princeton University
Location: Lahore, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Joshua Gill
Field: Agriculture Economics
Project Title: Untitled research on the incidence of low yield among farming families in Pakistan
Affiliated Institution: Michigan State University
Location: Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Saad Gulzar
Field: Political Science
Project Title: Living in Ungoverned Space: Pakistan's Frontier Crimes Regulation
Affiliated Institution: New York University
Location: Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Pei-Ling Huang
Field: Ethnomusicology
Project Title: Untitled research on the transmission of kāfī poetry
Affiliated Institution: Harvard University
Location: Sindh and South Punjab, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Syeda ShahBano Ijaz
Field: Politics
Project Title: Untitled research on the affects of camps for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Pakistan on children
Affiliated Institution: New York University
Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Ahsan Kamal
Field: Sociology
Project Title: Water, Dams, and Disasters in Postcolonial Peripheries: The Stories of Mirani Dam
Affiliated Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Location: Lahore, Islamabad, and Turbat, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Farhan Yousaf
Field: Sociology
Project Title: Fleeing Violence: Gender, Human Rights, and Trafficking in Women in Pakistan
Affiliated Institution: University of Connecticut
Location: Punjab, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report