Member Highlights

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Dr. Kamran Asdar Ali (University of Texas at Austin) was elected the Vice President of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS)! Dr. Ali is currently an AIPS Institutional Trustee and was the AIPS President from 2011-2017. His term as AAS Vice President starts in March of 2021, and he will become the President of AAS in March 2022. To read more about AAS and their recent election, please check out their website.

Maria-Magdalena Pruss | Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

Friday, November 20, 2020

Dr. Maria-Magdalena Pruss won the DAVO (German Middle East Studies Association) Award 2020 for best dissertation in the fields of contemporary studies on the Middle East, North Africa,and other parts of the Islamic World for her 2019 dissertation "Islamic Modernism in Colonial Punjab: The Anjuman-i Himayat-i Islam, 1834-1923." Congratulations, Dr. Pruss!

Hassan Abbas | National Defense University

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Dr. Abbas recently published a policy brief with the Center for Global Policy (Washington, DC) on "U.S. Policy Toward South Asia: Ideas and Choices for the Next Administration." In the report, Dr. Abbas outlines key issues facing the incoming US administration and makes policy suggestions for navigating COVID recovery, India-Pakistan, and the rising regional influence of China.

Waqas Butt | UTSC

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Dr. Waqas Butt received a short-term lecturing and research grant from AIPS in 2015 and has recently published several articles from that research. Click on these links to read more about Dr.

Mushtaq Bilal | Binghamton University

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Mushtaq Bilal published "Reading Mohsin Hamid's Exit West as a World Novel" in the July issue of the Journal of World Literature. From the abstract, Bilal writes "This paper investigates how Mohsin Hamid’s fiction challenges the so-called “natural law” of world literature according to which a work of literature has to be first born into a national literature before circulating into world literature."