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.
Dr. SherAli Tareen recently delivered a talk in Pashto and Urdu on his book Defending Muhammad in Modernity for the inaugural Peshawar Literature Festival. Click here for the video of the talk and discussion.
Dr. Mashal Saif and Dr. Amen Jaffer, Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), recently published a co-edited volume titledState and Subject Formation in South Asia.
Ken LeBlond is the co-host/producer of a new podcast specifically focused on Pakistan/US relations called Chai and Coffee: Pakistan-Talks with co-host/producer Nuaman Ishfaq Mughal, a journalist based in Islamabad.
Sundas Amer (PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin) was a 2020 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Pakistan for two months. Read the final report and more here.
Starting in January 2023, Cambridge University Press will publish a new interdisciplinary journal, Critical Pakistan Studies. The journal is a joint launch between CUP and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS); the University of Exeter South Asia Centre, UK; and Le Centre d ‘Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS), France.
Dr. Paul Edleman (Sauk Valley Community College), Prof. Farah Habib (Bristol Community College), and Dr. Robert Soza (Mesa Community College) facilitated an AIPS-sponsored workshop titled “Inter-Disciplinary Integration of Social Science & Humanities in Pedagogy and Curriculum Development at Skills Building Educational Institutions.
Congratulations to Dr. Nosheen Ali for receiving the 2022 AIPS Book Prize for her book titled Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier! The Book Prize Committee writes that Dr. Ali's work "...advanced how the field thinks about the War on Terror, and how citizens in Gilgit-Baltistan negotiate and respond to the unique political economy created by the US and Pakistan in the borderlands." To see the committee's full comments, please see below. Congratulations again to Dr. Ali!
Congratulations to Dr. Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Dr. Michael Hirsch who were recently elected to the AIPS At-Large Executive Committee! Dr. Mehta is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and of Religion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She works on the evolution and synthesis of modernity; nationalism, religious revival, cinema and the post-global nation state. Dr. Hirsch is a Professor of Sociology at Huston-Tillotson University. He is currently doing research on reconciliation between Pakistan and India and the career paths of Russian Cosmonauts.