2017 Short-Term Research Grants

Funded on Unrestricted/Other Funds

Abdul Aijaz
Field: Geography and English
Project Title: Post-colonial Indus River Hydro-social Relations
Affiliated Institution: Indiana University
Location: Lahore and Nili Bar, Pakistan
Abstract             Final Report

Gemma Sharpe
Field: Art History
Project Title: The International Lives of Pakistani Art: 1947 - 2001
Affiliated Institution: City University of New York (CUNY)
Location: Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan
Abstract               Final Report

Salman A. Hussain
Field: History and Anthropology
Project Title: Transnational Migrations in the Gulf in Sahiwal, Pakistan
Affiliated Institution: University of Michigan
Location: Sahiwal, Lahore, and Islamabad, Pakistan
Abstract                 Final Report

Sidra Kamran
Field: Sociology
Project Title: Commodification of intimate practices and the construction of the 'economy' and 'markets' by focusing on all-female workplace
Affiliated Institution: The New School
Location: Karachi, Pakistan
Abstract                Final Report

Zoya Sameen
Field: History
Project Title: The Consumption of Prostitution: A History of Buying Sex in the Northwestern Indian Subcontinent, 1858 - 1918
Affiliated Institution: University of Chicago
Location: Lahore, Karachi, and Quetta, Pakistan
Abstract                Final Report 

Luke Sonnet
Field: Political Science
Project Title: The Causes and Effects of Electricity Load Shedding in Pakistan
Affiliated Institution: University of California - Los Angeles
Location: Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan
Abstract                 Final Report

Tariq L. Rahman
Field: Anthropology
Project Title: Plots, Speculation, and Capital in Urban Pakistan
Affiliated Institution: University of California - Irvine
Location: Lahore, Pakistan
Abstract                         Final Report