Dr. Iqbal Akhtar, Director of Western Indian Ocean Studies at FIU and AIPS Trustee, will be a Fulbright scholar in Pakistan for spring term of 2020. He will teach a course on comparative historiography at UMT in Lahore and continue to do research in Islamabad. His grant is focused on capacity building of Pakistani academics to write for a global audience, apply for international grants, develop US-Pakistani academic relationships, and to develop a more rigorous perspective of Pakistan's history in its humanities disciplines.