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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2013-14 Travel Grants
CAORC Funded
*Funding provided by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State through a grant from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).
Abdul Haque Chang
Affiliated Institution: University of Texas-Austin
Conference Name: State, Society, Bureaucracy, and Networks
Conference Date: May 9-11, 2014
Title of Paper: The Indus Delta: Rethinking the Raison d’etre of the Last Frontier
Paper Abstract Final Report
David Gilmartin
Affiliated Institution: North Carolina State University
Conference Name: Association for Asian Studies
Conference Date: March 27-30, 2014
Title of Paper: Locating Forgotten Histories: Religious, Linquistic, and Economic Limits of Pakistan
Paper Abstract: Discussant on Panel
Faiza Moatasim
Affiliated Institution: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Conference Name: Urban Hybridity in the Post-Colonial Age (International Institute for Asian Studies)
Conference Date: December 16-20, 2013
Title of Paper: Temporary Provisions- Rethinking Hybridization in the Planned Modernist City of Islamabad.
Paper Abstract Final Report
Farhan Yousaf
Affiliated Institution: University of Connecticut
Conference Name: Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association
Conference Date: April 23-25, 2014
Title of Paper: Gender-Based Violence and Trafficking in Women Paper
Paper Abstract Final Report
Isabel Huacuja
Affiliated Institution: University of Texas-Austin
Conference Name: Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference
Conference Date: March 28-30, 2014
Title of Paper: Hindustani News Bulletins, the Second World War, and the “Indian Masses”
Paper Abstract Final Report
Katie Lindstrom
Affiliated Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Conference Name: Society for American Archaeology 79th Annual Meeting
Conference Date: April 24-27, 2014
Title of Paper: Patterns of Elite Harappan Pottery in the Indus Civilization Borderlands of Gujarat Paper
Paper Abstract Final Report
Matthew Nelson
Affiliated Institution: School of Oriental and African Studies
Conference Name: The 42nd Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 17-20, 2013
Title of Paper: Voting for Impunity: On the Conceptual Limits of Patronage Democracy
Paper Abstract
Nadia Loan
Affiliated Institution: University of Oregon
Conference Name: Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
Conference Date: November 20-24, 2013
Title of Paper: Quranic Legibility: Inscribing Devotion in Contemporary Pakistan
Paper Abstract
Naeem Mohaiemen
Affiliated Institution: Columbia University
Conference Name: Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 17-19, 2013
Title of Paper: Prisoners of Shothik Itihash
Paper Abstract
Richard Barnett
Affiliated Institution: University of Virginia
Conference Name: 43rd Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 16-19, 2013
Title of Paper: Excavating the Deep History of Pakistan: Fixing the Unbearable Lightness of Pakistan's History in the College Classroom
Paper Abstract Final Report
Sahar Khan
Affiliated Institution: University of California-Irvine
Conference Name: International Studies Association 55th Annual Convention
Conference Date: March 26-29, 2014
Title of Paper: What is the State’s Relationship with Terrorism? Reevaluating Agency in Terrorism
Paper Abstract Final Report
Sheetal Chhabria
Affiliated Institution: Connecticut College
Conference Name: Association of Asian Studies
Conference Date: March 27-30, 2014
Title of Paper: Locating Karachi's Urban Poverty
Paper Abstract Final Report
Venkat Dhulipala
Affiliated Institution: University of North Carolina-Wilmington
Conference Name: Association of Asian Studies
Conference Date: March 27-30, 2014
Title of Paper: Binding Deoband and the Muslim League: Ashraf Ali Thanawi and Muslim Politics in Late Colonial India
Paper Abstract Final Report
Walter Hakala
Affiliated Institution: University of Buffalo, SUNY
Conference Name: Annual Conference on South Asia
Conference Date: October 17-20, 2013
Title of Paper: Dictionary Dacoits: Self-Quotation and Plagiarism in Colonial Urdu Lexicography
Paper Abstract
Yelena Biberman
Affiliated Institution: Brown University
Conference Name: Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference
Conference Date: April 3-6, 2014
Title of Paper: Like Fish in the Water: Target Density and State Outsourcing of Violence in Pakistan
Paper Abstract Final Report
US Embassy 2 Funded
(US to Pakistan)
Christopher Candland
Affiliated Institution: Wellesley College
Conference Name: The 6th South Asian International Conference (SAICON 2014)
Conference Date: August 11-13, 2014
Title of Paper: Overcoming the Pakistan-United States Trust Deficit with Video Conference Courses
Paper Abstract
Sardar Mohazzam
Affiliated Institution: University of Delaware
Conference Name: The 6th South Asian International Conference (SAICON 2014)
Conference Date: August 11-13, 2013
Title of Paper: Economics of Solar Power: A Case Study of Pakistan
Paper Abstract Final Report
(Pakistan to the US)
Rehmat Karim
Affiliated Institution: Karakoram International University-Gilgit
Conference Name: Mobile Seminar on Planning and Managing Tourism in Protected Areas
Conference Date: September 10-25, 2014
Final Report
Fakhira Khanam
Affiliated Institution: Akhter Hameed Khan Resource Center-Islamabad
Conference Name: 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Development Practice
Conference Date: September 17, 2014
Final Report