Professors Fran Smulcheski  and Habbat Kibzai were awarded a travel grant from the State University of New York to conduct research in Pakistan for their collaborative project "Silent Voices Echo: Children at work". Their project researches and photographically documents, artistically, economically, and socially the complexities of child labor in Pakistan especially now during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Dr. Mashal Saif recently published a new book, "The 'Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan: Contesting and Cultivating an Islamic Republic" with Cambridge University Press. In this book, Dr.