Welcome to AIPS
The American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), established in 1973, is a bi-national research and education organization with a mission to promote academic study of Pakistan in the US and to encourage scholarly exchange between the US and Pakistan.
It is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt, autonomous organization and a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
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AIPS Book Prize 2026
Congratulations to both Dr. Nathan Tabor (Associate Professor, Western Michigan University) and Dr. Ilyas Chattha (Professor, LUMS) for receiving the 2026 AIPS Book Prize! This year, the AIPS Book Prize Committee selected two books for the annual award. Please see the committee’s comments below: City of Lyrics: Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popular Culture in Early … Read more
Travel Grant Deadline
Are you an AIPS member who is presenting at an upcoming conference? Check out AIPS’s Travel Grants! The next deadline to apply is June 15. AIPS Travel Grants fund travel to scholarly conferences for the presentation of papers or organization of panels on topics relevant to Pakistan Studies. *Please review the “Travel Grants” tab in … Read more
AIPS Pakistan Academic Event
AIPS Pakistan collaborated with the Pakistan Academy of Letters, Islamabad to host an event titled “Pakistan’s Heritage and Cultural Conservation: Challenges, Strategies, and the Way Forward” on May 4, 2026. The event significantly enriched Pakistan Studies by expanding its focus beyond political narratives to include culture as a core analytical lens, while fostering interdisciplinary dialogue … Read more
Member Highlights
Fatima Quraishi | Princeton University
Fatima Quraishi’s new book titled “Palimpsests Past and Present: The Saints and Sultans of the Makli Necropolis, 1380-1660” will be published this October! You can find it in the UNC Press series “Islamic Civilizations and Muslim Networks” edited by Carl Ernst and Bruce Lawrence. The book is now available for pre-order on the UNC Press … Read more
Abdual Aijaz | Indiana University Bloomington
Abdul Aijaz’s publication titled “Politics and Poetics of Water and Hydrosocial Crisis in Punjab” is now accessible on Antipode. This essay explores the interconnections between eco-aesthetics, narratives of development, and hydropolitics to better understand the twin material and narrative crises of water in Pakistan. You can find this essay here: Politics and Poetics of Water … Read more
Tahir Naqvi | Trinity University
Dr. Tahir Naqvi was recently promoted to full professor at the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at Trinity University. He teaches courses in anthropology and sociology, with a focus on South Asian and Muslim world studies. His teaching often involves themes such as Partition legacies, urbanization, and political mobilization. His research emphasizes questions of state power, urban … Read more
Abdul Aijaz | Indiana University Bloomington
Dr. Abdul Aijaz was selected to give the first Karan Graduate Lecture on Friday, Feb. 13. In his lecture, “Factional Ecologies: Environmental Imagination and Hydrosocial Futures in Punjab,” Dr. Aijaz examined how environmental imagination, political contestation and ecological transformation intersect in the canal-irrigated landscapes of Punjab amid a global environmental crisis. Dr. Aijaz is a human geographer … Read more
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