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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Book Prize Awardees
2024
Author: Ali Usman Qasmi
Title: Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan
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2023
Author: Waleed Ziad
Title: Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints Beyond the Oxus and Indus
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Author: Isabel Huacuja Alonso
Title: Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders
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2022
Author: Nosheen Ali
Title: Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier
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2021
Author: Mubbashir Rizvi
Title: The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan
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2020
Author: SherAli Tareen
Title: Defending Muhammad in Modernity
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2019 
Author: Ammara Maqsood, Department of Anthropology, University College London
Title: The New Pakistani Middle Class
2016-17
Author: Sadia Saeed, Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco
Title: Politics of Desecularization: Law and the Minority Question in Pakistan
2015-16
Author: David Gilmartin, Professor of History, North Carolina State University
Title: Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History
2014-15
Author: Osama Siddique, Executive Director of the Law and Policy Research Network (LPRN), Associate Fellow at the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS), and currently a member of the Senior Faculty of the Institute for Global Law & Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School.
Title: Pakistan's Experience with Formal Law: An Alien Justice
2013-14
Author: Cabeiri Robinson, Associate Professor of International Studies & South Asian Studies, University of Washington
Title: Body of Victim, Body of Warrior: Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists
2012-13
Author: Naveeda Khan, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan
2011-12
Senior Book Prize
Author: Jamal Elias, Religious Studies and Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania
Title: On Wings of Diesel: Trucks, Identity and Culture in Pakistan
Junior Book Prize
Author: Alyssa Ayres, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, US Dept. of State
Title: Speaking Like a State: Language and Nationalism in Pakistan
This book was written in the author's personal capacity prior to her appointment at the Department of State. The views are the author's own and do not represent the views of the Department of State.