Department of Anthropology

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DR. MUSTAFA KAMAL AKAND
PROFESSOR
MSS (JU) PhD (RU)

Research Interest: Poverty and Rural Development, Development Research, Medical Anthropology, Ethnicity and Migration, Anthropology of Childhood, Urban Anthropology
Email Address: drakand@gmail.com, drkamal_anth@ru.ac.bd


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BOKHTIAR AHMED
PROFESSOR
PhD (ACU), MSCD (UoW), MSS & BSS (DU)

Research Interest: Power and Political Orders, Language & communication, labour mobility, trade and market systems, social movements, climate change and ecology, Disaster and Vulnerability, social protection, and gendered exclusions.
Email Address: bokhtiar_ahmed@ru.ac.bd


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DR. MD. ADIL HASAN CHOWDHURY
PROFESSOR
B.S.S. (Hons.) M.S.S., PhD.

Research Interest: Migration and Diaspora, Kinship, Urban society, Gender Issue.
Email Address: chowdhuryadil@ru.ac.bd, chowdhuryadil@yahoo.com


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MD. KAMAL PASA
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
M.S.S in Anthropology (SUST) B.S.S in Anthropology (SUST)

Research Interest: I am a professional anthropologist with approximately 22 years of experience in teaching and research, including commissioned research. As a faculty, I have supervised student research projects at the MPhil/PhD, MSS, and BSS levels. My teaching and research interest include theory, research methodology (qualitative and quantitative), manual and software-aided data analysis, linguistics, socio-cultural and political change, agriculture, food security and livelihood, climate change and adaptation, disaster risk reduction, aging, health and nutrition, gender, queer population studies, religion, human-technology interaction, and development. Throughout my career, I have had the opportunity to engage in and successfully complete research in various areas, including project evaluation (baseline, midterm, and endline, including participatory methods), health and nutrition, food security and livelihood, climate change and disaster risk reduction, education, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), drug addiction, persons with disabilities, human rights violations, humanitarian and emergency response, and socio-cultural and political change. The major focus of my commission research is project/program evaluation.
Email Address: kamalpasa@ru.ac.bd


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KAZI ROBIUL ALOM
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
M.S.S. (SUST), B.S.S. (SUST)

Research Interest: Claimate Change, Health: Child and newborn health, Adolescent sexual and reproductive Health, Migration and Trafficking, Ethnicity and Ethnic group relations, HIV/AIDS and drug addiction, Transgender relation, Environment, Agrarian Change
Email Address: robiulalom@ru.ac.bd


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TAHMINA NAZNIN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
MSc in Gender and Development Studies (AIT, Thailand), MSS in Anthropology (RU, Bangladesh)

Research Interest: Gender and Development
Email Address: naznin.anth@gmail.com


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MD. GOLAM FARUK SARKER
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
PhD Candidate (UNE, Australia), MHSS (MU, Thailand), MSS & BSS (SUST, Bangladesh)

Research Interest: Medical Anthropology, Aging, Gender and Politics
Email Address: gfsarker@ru.ac.bd


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MOHAMMAD ALTAF HOSSAIN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Ph.D. (Maynooth University, Ireland), M.S.S. & B.S.S. (Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh)

Research Interest: Risk and Disaster, Development, Environmental Change, Social Policy, Agriculture and Food, Migration, Corruption
Email Address: altaf.anthro@ru.ac.bd, alt.hossain@gmail.com


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MD. LITON HOSSEN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
MHRD (MU, Thailand), MSS in Anthropology (DU, Bangladesh)

Research Interest: Human Rights, Gender and Development, Gender and Sexuality, Sexual Minority Rights (LGBT, Queer), Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR), Anthropology of Human Rights, Gender and Feminist Anthropology, Political Anthropology
Email Address: litonanthro.ru@ru.ac.bd, litonanthro.ru@gmail.com


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SHARMINA SHAMS
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
MSS (DU), BSS (DU)

Research Interest: Kinship, gender, ethnicity, social theory, inequality, development
Email Address: sharmina.shams@ru.ac.bd, sharmina.shams@gmail.com


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SHAMIM AHMED
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
M.S.S & B.S.S in Anthropology (Rajshahi University)

Research Interest: Early Childhood Development (ECD), Parenting, Child Rights, Social Inclusion, Ethnic Group Studies (Plain Land Ethnic Group especially Santal), Development Research, and Ethnographic Research
Email Address: shamim_ahmed@ru.ac.bd


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MD. MOSTAFIZUR RAHMAN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
MSS (RU)

Research Interest: Medical Anthropology, Reproductive Health, Infertility, Harijan Community ,Cultural Anthropology
Email Address: mostafiz.anthro@ru.ac.bd


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AVIJIT ROY
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
M.S.S. in Anthropology (University of Dhaka) B.S.S.in Anthropology ( University of Dhaka)

Research Interest: Human-Environment Interaction, Climate Variability and Change, Agrarian Livelihood, Cultural Diversity, Peoples Led Development, Indigenous Knowledge
Email Address: avijitroyanth@ru.ac.bd


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Mahmuda Fatema
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
M.Phil (DU), MSS & BSS (DU)

Research Interest: Social History, Ethnicity, Kinship, Gender, Land and Development
Email Address: mahmuda@ru.ac.bd


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Radia Awal Trisha
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
BSS & MSS (RU)

Research Interest: Social Change and Development, Political Economy,, Food Security and Climate Change, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Archaeology, Visual Anthropology, Food Culture, Media and representation, Climate Change, Indigenous People
Email Address: radia_awal@ru.ac.bd, radiatrisha@gmail.com


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S. M. SANZID RAHMAN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
BSS & MSS (JU, Bangladesh)

Research Interest: Anthropology of Development, Gender Issues, Child Rights, Public Policy, Prison & Prisoners, Migration & Diaspora Studies
Email Address: sanzid@ru.ac.bd


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