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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2015 Short-Term Research Grants
Funded by Public Affairs Section, American Embassy, Islamabad, Pakistan
Brian Bond
Field: Ethnomusicology
Project Title: Kāfī Musical Performance and the Transmission of Locally Embedded Islam
Affiliated Institution: City University of New York - The Graduate Center
Location: Lahore, Pakistan
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James Edmonds
Field: Religious Studies
Project Title: Untitled research comparing the Naqshbandi tariqa (Sufi order) in Pakistan and Indonesia
Affiliated Institution: Arizona State University
Location: Lahore, Pakistan
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Zahra Hayat
Field: Sociocultural Anthropology
Project Title: Untitled research on intellectual property regimes in Pakistan's pharmaceutical industry
Affiliated Institution: University of California-Berkeley
Location: Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Marc Kelley
Field: Anthropology
Project Title: Untitled research on the energy crisis in Pakistan
Affiliated Institution: University of Chicago
Location: Lahore, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Sahar Khan
Field: Political Science
Project Title: Combating Violent Islamist Proxies: The Role of Civil Institututions in Pakistan
Affiliated Institution: University of California-Irvine
Location: Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
James Pickett
Field: History
Project Title: Seeing like a Princely State: Eurasian Protectorates Between Persinate Court and Modern State
Affiliated Institution: Princeton University
Location: Lahore, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Fatima Quraishi
Field: Islamic Art and Architecture
Project Title: Necropolis as Palimpsest: the Makli Cemetary in Sindh (ca. 1350-1650)
Affiliated Institution: New York University
Location: Makli, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Alexis Saba
Field: Education Policy Studies, International and Comparative Education
Project Title: Education Narratives in Pakistan's Development Sector
Affiliated Institution: Indiana University
Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Sara Singha
Field: Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
Project Title: Dalit Christians and Caste in Pakistan
Affiliated Institution: Georgetown University
Location: Lahore and Punjab, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Sabah Firoz Uddin
Field: Gender and Women's Studies
Project Title: Writing Politics and Piety on Women's Bodies: A Study of the Duppatta Debate in Pakistan
Affiliated Institution: Merrimack College
Location: Pakistan
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Rabia Zafar
Field: Law and Diplomacy
Project Title: Enterprising Extremists: Crime, Religion, and Political Violence in Pakistan
Affiliated Institution: Tufts University
Location: Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Funded on Unrestricted/Other Funds
Ghazal Asif
Field: Anthropology
Project Title: Organizing Difference: Hindy Panchayats and Local Government in Sindh
Affiliated Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Location: Karachi and Hyderabad, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Sarah Khan
Field: Political Science
Project Title: Making Democracy Work for Women
Affiliated Institution: Columbia University
Location: Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Ayesha Masood
Field: Cultural Anthropology
Project Title: Decisions that Matter: Subjectivity and Agency in the Career Choices of Pakistani Women Doctors
Affiliated Institution: Arizona State University
Location: Lahore, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Mohammad Waqas Sajjad
Field: Islamic Studies
Project Title: Deobandism and Barelvism in Pakistan: Tracing Developments in Postcolonial Discursive Traditions
Affiliated Institution: Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
Location: Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report
Rafeel Wasif
Field: International Relations, Comparative Politics, and South Asia
Project Title: Madrassas as NGOs: Analyzing Madrassa Resistance to Government Funding in Pakistan
Affiliated Institution: University of Washington
Location: Islamabad, Karachi, and Lahore, Pakistan
Abstract Final Report