Dr M Anwar Hossen
Senior Research Fellow, RAPID
Dr M Anwar Hossen is Professor of Sociology Department, University of Dhaka-Bangladesh and is a co-editor of Brill Journal, Bandung: Journal of the Global South. He received PhD on anthropology in 2014 from the University of British Columbia (UBC) Canada. He was the recipient of Nehru Humanitarian Award 2010 at UBC. Based on this research project, he also received International Development Research Center (IDRC) Canada doctoral research award in 2011-12. In addition to this PhD, he completed Master of Art (MA) from Carleton University, Canada.
He has twenty years teaching and research experiences in four major universities in Bangladesh and Canada. In Canada, he worked as research and teaching assistant in addition to sessional lecturer during his studies in 2006-2014. In Bangladesh, Dr. Hossen served as a Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, ShahJalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet in 1998-2003. Since 2003, he is a faculty member of Sociology Department, University of Dhaka. He is also active in international collaborative research. He presented research findings in the United States of America, Canada, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, South Korea, and Bangladesh. Dr. Hossen published his research outcomes regularly at international level: e.g., Asiatic Society, Brill, Routledge, Sustainability and Springer, and at national level: e.g., Social Science Review. In addition to his publication tract record, he reviews research reports, government documents, and journal articles regularly at national and international levels. He is one of the reviewers of the United Nations’ IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15) in 2018. Since 2018, he is an Advisory Group Member, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development, BRAC University and Founding Advisor, Institute of Development Studies and sustainability (IDSS), United International University (UIU).