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smkais@ru.ac.bd, shaikhmo001@ntu.edu.sg

Professor of Sociology, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi 6205, Bangladesh


SHAIKH MOHAMMAD KAIS
PROFESSOR
Sociology


Education Summary  
PhD (NTU, Sg)

Research Interest  
Climate change, Community resilience, Sociology in the Global South, Human-animal interaction, Social psychology, Aquaculture
Level Institution Year
Doctoral
(Doctor of Philosophy)
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 2018

Experience in Rajshahi University

Duration Organization/Institute Position
2021-02-27 to Sociology Professor

Experience in other Organization/Institute

Duration Organization/Institute Position
1998-10-01 to 2000-01-15 Sonali Bank, Head Office, Motijheel, Dhaka Senior Officer

Book Chapter

1. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS. "Dying with Dignity: Perception of Good Death among the Santals of Bangladesh." Pp. 26-47 in Death and the Events: International Perspectives on Events Marking the End of Life, edited by Ian R. Lamond and Ruth Dowson. London: Routledge.

Published: January 2022
2. Wardatul Akmam, Shaikh Mohammad KAIS, Md. Shafikuzzaman Joarder, and Md. Fakrul Islam. "Diversity in Perceived Values of Urban Nature." Pp. 584-594 in The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology, edited by I. Douglas, P. M. L. Anderson, D. Goode, M. C. Houck, D. Maddox, H. Nagendra, and T. P. Yok. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.

Published: January 2021
3. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS. "Crisis of Unplanned Expansion of Sociology in the Global South: Problems and Prospects of Sociological Education in Bangladesh" Pp. 339-356 in Sociologies in Dialogue, edited by Sari Hanafi and Chin-Chun Yi. London: Sage.

Published: July 2020
4. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS. "Hybridizing Sociology: A Challenge for Contemporary Sociological Research in Bangladesh" Pp. 168-199 in Sociology and Social Anthropology in South Asia: Histories and Practices, edited by Ravi Kumar, Dev Nath Pathak and Sasanka Perera. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Private Limited

Published: July 2018
5. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS. "Climate Change: Vulnerability and Resilience in Commercial Shrimp Aquaculture in Bangladesh." Pp. 162-187 in Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies, edited by Wayne Ganpat and Wendy-Ann Isaac. Hershey: IGI Global.

Published: January 2017
6. Shaikh Mohammad Kais. "Fifty Years of Bangladesh Sociology: Towards a 'Hybrid Sociology'?" Pp. 326-356 in Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for a Global Sociology, volume 2, edited by Michael Burawoy, Mau-kuei Chang, and Michelle Fei-yu Hsieh. Taipei: Academia Sinica and International Sociological Association.

Published: April 2010

Journal

1. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS and Md Saidul Islam. "Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Disaster Management: The Coastal Embankment Project in Southwestern Bangladesh." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, 1-20, doi: 10.3390/ijerph20126086.

Published: May 2023
2. Joarder, Md. Shafikuzzaman, Wardatul Akmam, Shaikh Mohammad KAIS, and Md. Nazmul Hoque. "Quality of Services in the Secondary Educational Organizations of Bangladesh: An Evaluation by Secondary Graduates." Indonesian Journal of Innovation and Applied Sciences, 2(3): 193-203. DOI: 10.47540/ijias.v2i3.595.

Published: July 2022
3. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS and Md. Saidul Islam. "Resilience to Climate Change in Industrial Shrimping in Bangladesh: Assessing the Comparative Role of the Stakeholders." 13 (2021), 307

Published: January 2021
4. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS and Md Saidul Islam. "Perception of Climate Change in Shrimp-Farming Communities in Bangladesh: A Critical Assessment" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, 672

Published: February 2019
5. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS and Md Saidul Islam. "Challenges for Sustainable Aquaculture: Evidences from Bangladesh" Aqua Practical 3(2): 3-6

Published: April 2018
6. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS and Md Saidul Islam. "Impacts of and resilience to climate change at the bottom of the shrimp commodity chain in Bangladesh: A preliminary investigation." Aquaculture. 493(2018): 406-415.

Published: May 2017
7. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS and Md Saidul Islam. "Community Capitals as Community Resilience to Climate Change: Conceptual Connections." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 13:1211 (2016).

Published: July 2016
8. Md. Nazrul Islam, Shaikh Mohammad KAIS, and Yuling Wu. "Global Food Regimes: Explaining Rice and Shrimp Production in Bangladesh." Asian Profile 43(5): 485-498

Published: December 2015
9. Md. Nazrul Islam, Shaikh Mohammad KAIS. "Sophia’s Correspondence with President Obama: A Durkheimian Analysis of Contemporary American Society." Research on Humanities and Social Sciences 3(15): 70-78

Published: September 2013

Conference

1. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS "Debunking the Myths: Shrimp Aquaculture and Environmental Degradation in Bangladesh." XX ISA World Congress of Sociology. Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies. Organized by the International Sociological Association (ISA) in Melbourne, Australia.

Published: June 2023
2. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS. "Global Warming at the Margin: A Study of the Sociology of Climate Change in Bangladesh." XX ISA World Congress of Sociology. Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies. Organized by the International Sociological Association (ISA) in Melbourne, Australia.

Published: June 2023
3. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS. "Ethnicity, Marginality, and Discrimination: A Study of Santal-Bengali Relationship in Northern Bangladesh." Fifth ISA Council of National Associations Conference. Organized by the International Sociological Association (ISA) in Nova Gorica, Slovenia.

Published: November 2022
4. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS. "Resilience to Climate Change in Industrial Shrimping in Bangladesh: Assessing the Comparative Role of the Stakeholders" Fourth ISA Virtual Forum of Sociology, Organized by the International Sociological Association (ISA) in Porte Algre, Brazil. February 23-28, 2021.

Published: February 2021
5. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS. "Sharing the shrinking spaces in a jungle: climate change and tiger victims in southwestern Bangladesh" Unequal World Online Conference on Human Development. Organized by the Unequal World Research Centre at Zoom online platform. September 28-29, 2020.

Published: September 2020
6. Wardatul Akmam, Shaikh Mohammad KAIS, Md. Shafikuzzaman Joarder, and Md. Nazmul Hoque. "Assessing Secondary Level Academic Achievement of Students at a Tertiary Education Organization: The Case of University of Rajshahi" Annual Conference on Regional Science. Jointly organized by the Bangladesh Regional Science Association (BRSA), Centre for Regional Development Studies (CRDS), and BUET at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Published: October 2018
7. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS. "Food Culture, Gender, and the ‘Thin Ideal’: Changing Food Habits of Health-conscious Urban Women in Bangladesh" Transecting Healthy and Sustainable Food in the Asia-Pacific. Organized by the Yale-NUS College and the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. July 29 – August 1, 2018.

Published: July 2018
8. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS. "Crisis of Unplanned Expansion of Sociology in the Global South: Problems and Prospects of Sociological Education in Bangladesh" Sociologies in Dialogue. Fourth Conference of the Council of National Associations (CNA). Organized by the International Sociological Association (ISA) at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. May 08-10, 2017.

Published: May 2017
9. Shaikh Mohammad KAIS. "Climate Change and Resilience in Shrimp-farming communities in Bangladesh" International Conference on Governance and Development: Asian Perspective. Organized by the Department of Public Administration, University of Rajshahi at the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. January 28-29, 2017.

Published: January 2017
10. Shaikh Mohammad Kais. "Global Climate Change and Aquaculture: The Case of Commercial Shrimp Farming in Bangladesh" Workshop on Environment in Asia: Interdisciplinary discussions and future directions. Organized by the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. November 11-12, 2015.

Published: November 2015
11. Shaikh Mohammad Kais. "Moving forward and backward? In Search for a Nexus between Globalization, Aquaculture, and Climate Change in Industrial Shrimp Farming in Bangladesh" The Conference on the Social Sciences, Sociology and Globalization in Asia (COSGA) 2015. Organized by PRESDA Foundation at KKR Hotel, Hiroshima, Japan. August 24-26, 2015.

Published: August 2015
12. Shaikh Mohammad Kais. "Fifty Years of Bangladesh Sociology: Towards a ‘Hybrid Sociology’?" Facing an Unequal World. Second Conference of the Council of National Associations (CNA). Organized by International Sociological Association (ISA) at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. March 23-25, 2009.

Published: March 2009

Social Psychology

An undergraduate course at RU (Sociology)

Economic Sociology

An undergraduate course at RU (Sociology)

Sociology of Religion

An undergraduate course at RU (Sociology)

Sociological Theory and Perspectives

A PhD-level course at RU (Sociology)

Classical Sociological Theory

An MSS course at BOU (Sociology)

Ethnic Communities of Bangladesh

An undergraduate course at RU (Sociology)

Introduction to Sociology

An undergraduate course at RU (IER)

Sociological Theory

An undergraduate course at RU (IER)

Sociology of Bangladesh

An undergraduate course at RU (IER)

Sociology of Organizations

An undergraduate course at RU (IER)

Fundamentals of Sociology

An EMSS course at RU (Sociology)

Graying Society

An undergraduate course at NTU (Sociology)

Sociology of Tourism

An undergraduate course at NTU (Sociology)

Migration and Multiculturalism

An undergraduate course at NTU (Sociology)

Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations

An undergraduate course at NTU (Sociology)

Social History and World Civilization

An undergraduate course at RU (Sociology)

Sociology of Social Problems

An undergraduate course at RU (Sociology)

Classical Sociological Theory

An undergraduate course at RU (Sociology)

Sociology of Food

An undergraduate course at RU (Sociology)

Criminology

An undergraduate course at RU (Sociology)

Research Project

An undergraduate course for selected students at RU (Sociology)

Science, Technology and Society

An undergraduate course at RU (Sociology)

MSS Thesis

An MSS course for selected students at RU (Sociology)

Project Planning and Management

An EMSS course at RU (Sociology)

Social Gerontology

An undergraduate course at RU (Sociology)

Social History of Bangladesh

An MSS course at BOU (Sociology)

Deviance and Crime

An MSS course at BOU (Sociology)


PhD Thesis
Dissertation Title: Climate Change and Resilience in Industrial Aquaculture: A Study of Community Capitals in the Shrimp-farming Zone in Bangladesh.

Download Link: https://doi.org/10.32657/10356/73286


Online Profiles

1. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=42acoIMAAAAJ

2. ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shaikh_Kais

3. ORCID Record: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7325-2602

4. Scopus Author ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57192302196

5. Sciprofiles: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/smkais

6. Academia Profile: https://rubd.academia.edu/ShaikhMohammadKais

7. ResearcherID (Publon): AAX-4430-2020


Professional Associations

1. Member: Executive Committee 2023-2027, International Sociological Association (ISA).

2. Individual Member: International Sociological Association (ISA) [2009-].

3. Member: ISA Research Committee 24 (RC 24) -- Environment and Society [2017-].

4. Member: ISA Research Committee 35 (RC 35) -- Conceptual and Terminological Analysis (COCTA) [2009-2012].

5. Member: ISA Research Committee 42 (RC 42) -- Social Psychology [2021-].

6. Member: Bangladesh Sociological Association (BSA) [2000-].

7. Member: Bangla Academy [2010-2016].






















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