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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