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The American Institute of Pakistan Studies is excited to announce the AIPS Resource Library (ARL), a new effort we've been working on to consolidate Pakistan-related, open-access publications and materials on one central site. Our ARL currently houses over 100 publications and is continuing to grow. To navigate the library, click on "Browse Resources," where all … Read more

Book submissions are due to AIPS on Monday, January 10. Still interested in submitting your recently published book for consideration? See the AIPS Book Prize page and fill out our submission form to confirm your eligibility today.

After a forced hiatus of two years due to the pandemic THAAP has decided to hold the 11th International THAAP Conference – 2022, in November 2022 on the following theme: Archaeology and Living Cultural Legacy of Harappa Civilization. Read the full Call for Proposals here.  Scholars are invited to research, write, and present papers at the conference … Read more

AIPS would like to congratulate our 2022 Short-Term Research Grant Awardees: Sana Naeem, Harvard University; Asif Sandeelo, University of Georgia; Javairia Shahid, Columbia University; Syed Eisar Haider, University of Notre Dame; and  Aabiya Noman Baqai, the University of Texas at Austin. These scholars will spend up to 3 months conducting research in Pakistan. AIPS would … Read more

AIPS is excited to announce our 2022-23 Fellows! Post-Doctoral Fellowships were awarded to Sohaib Khan, Yale University; and Uzma Rizvi, Pratt Institute of Design. Pre-Doctoral Fellowships were awarded to Marvi Ahmed, Cornell University; Sanaullah Khan, Johns Hopkins University; Shandana Waheed, Stanford University; and Tayeba Batool, University of Pennsylvania. This year’s cohort will be exploring a … Read more

Every two years, AIPS hosts an Emerging Scholars Pakistan Studies Symposium (previously known as the AIPS Junior Scholars Conference) in conjunction with the Annual Conference on South Asia. Graduate Students who are enrolled in a PhD program in a US academic institution and have ABD status are encouraged to apply. Post-Doctoral candidates who completed their … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more