Dr. Asma Faiz is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Mushtaq Ahmed Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences. She did her Ph.D. in Political Science from Sciences Po, Paris (2017) and M.Sc. in Political Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2011). Dr. Faiz’s research focuses on ethnic nationalism, populism, ethnic parties and federalism. She is the author of the book In Search of Lost Glory: Sindhi Nationalism in Pakistan (Hurst Publishers, 2021). Dr. Faiz also edited a volume Making Federation Work: Federalism in Pakistan After the 18th Amendment (2015). Dr. Faiz is recipient of several fellowships including the Fulbright fellowship, Campus France Fellowship and the Rangoonwalla fellowship. Dr. Faiz also worked with international think tanks such as Forum of Federations and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Furthermore, Dr. Faiz worked in the policy sector with international donor organizations such as USAID. She is the recipient of research grants including the Faculty Initiative Fund (FIF) LUMS and the Peridot HEC-Campus France research grant. Dr. Faiz’s on-going research focuses on the following themes: ethnic parties and nationalist politics in Balochistan and populist politics in Pakistan. Furthermore, she is co-editing a special issue of the journal Commonwealth and Comparative Politics on the impact of the 18th Amendment on Pakistan’s federation.
Faiz, A. (2021). In Search of Lost Glory: Sindhi Nationalism in Pakistan.
Faiz, A. (Ed.). (2015). Making Federation Work: Federalism in Pakistan after the 18th Amendment, Karachi: Oxford University Press.
Faiz, A. (2007). India-Pakistan Dialogue: Bringing the Society In, Colombo: Regional Center for Strategic Studies
Faiz, A. (2009). Citizen Diplomacy and Civil Society Contacts between India and Pakistan. The India-Pakistan Reconciliation and Other Experiences in Post-Conflict Management. Paris: IFRI.
Faiz, A. (2016). Federalism and Security in the Age of Terror: Police in Pakistan. Federalism: A Success Story?. Munich: Nova Scotia Publishers.
Faiz, A. (2019). Populism of the Right: Imran Khan in Pakistan. Populisme au pouvoir. Paris: Sciences Po Press.
Faiz, A. (2013). Citizen Diplomacy in Indo-Pakistan Dialogues. South Asia Journal, 39.
2015: Faiz, A., "The 18th Amendment, Federalism and Ethnic Politics in Pakistan". Opinion piece in UNDP Pakistan Review
"Mapping the Trajectory of Federalism in Pakistan: A View from the Province of Sindh", Scales of Governance: International conference on Leadership and Governance Challenges in South Asia, Sciences Po, Paris and Bandaranaike Academy for Leadership and Public Policy, Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 2025
"Ethnic Nationalism, Political Parties and the State in Pakistan," NORIA Graduate Conference on South Asia, Paris, June 2015
"Mapping the Trajectory of Federalism in Pakistan: A View from Provinces", Center of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, May 2025
"Patronage, Populism and Ethnic Nationalism: The Pakistan Peoples Party in and around the 2024 Elections", Political Parties Research Group, University of Bristol, May 2025
"Centripetalism and Consociationalism as Means of Diversity Accommodation", Hanns Seidel Foundation and School of Politics and International Relations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, September 2024
"And the Winner Is...Political Parties at the Polls in the 2024 Elections in Pakistan", British Association for South Asian Studies Association (BASAS) Annual Conference, King s College, London, September 2024
"Mapping Sindhi Memoryscape,"HSS (Humanities and Social Sciences) Annual Conference, LUMS, April 2024
"Up Against the Mafia: The Manichean Politics of Imran Khan in Pakistan", The South Asia Seminar Series, St. Antony s College, Oxford, May 2023
"Sindh, PPP and the Battle for Federation in Pakistan", Sciences Po, Paris, October 2019
"From Populism to Authoritarianism: The PTI in Power in Pakistan," Sciences Po, Paris, October 2019
"Anatomy of a Nationalism: Understanding the Discourse of Sindhi Nationalist Politics", EHESS Workshop on Vernacularization of Muslim and Hindu Traditions: The Case of Sindhiyat, Paris, June 2016
"Civil Society and Citizen Diplomacy between India and Pakistan", LUMS-Hanns Seidel Foundation: Conference on Civil Society Contacts between India and Pakistan, LUMS, Lahore, June 2008
"Clash of Institutions and Beyond in Pakistan," Pakistan Beyond Seventy: The Long View, Johns Hopkins University, (online), January 2018
"Clash of Institutions in Pakistan," Courts and Politics in Pakistan, LUMS, March 2018
"Songs of Pride and Pain: The Sindhi Nationalist Narrative", CERI, Sciences Po, Paris, September 2017
"Federalism and Ethnic Conflict Resolution in Pakistan", International Conference on Mapping the Economic and Social Dynamics of South Asia: The Colonial Context, Punjabi University Patiala, India, October 2013
"Imran Khan Without Tsunami: The PTI and 2018 Elections in Pakistan," CERI-Sciences Po, Paris, June 2018
"Imran Khan of Pakistan: A New Type of Populist?", CERI, Sciences Po, Paris, December 2017
"A Promise for South Punjab: A Pre-Electoral Stunt or Nationalist Agenda?" LUMS Workshop on Elections, September 2018
From Institutional Management to Bidding for Power: The 2024 Elections in Pakistan, What Can Taiwan Teach the World? What Can the World Teach Taiwan? Lessons from the 2024 "Year of Elections", University of Nottingham, June 2025