Curriculum Vitae of Ahsan Habib

Ahsan Habib 

Assistant Professor 

Department of Sociology and Anthropology 

Green University of Bangladesh, Dhaka-1207 

E-mail: [email protected] 

Mobile No: +88-01720388768, +88-01926874551 

Research Experience 

2020: Working on ‘Bangladesh Online Extremism Mapping’ implemented by Strong  Cities Network, An Initiative of Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD). 

2020: Working on ‘Multi-agency Model for Preventing Violent Extremism’ implemented by Strong Cities Network, An Initiative of Institute for Strategic  Dialogue (ISD). 

2020: Socio-economic Expert, In-depth Monitoring Research on Vertical Extension of Circuit House’s in 37 Districts, Implemented by Ministry of Public Administration,  Funded by Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Department (IMED), Ministry of Planning, GoB.  

2020: Academic Research on Tobacco Cultivation in Lalmonirhat District: An  Anthropological Exploration of Causes and Socio-Economic Consequences, under the Supervision of Dr. Abul Hossain, Associate Professor and Chairperson, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Green University of Bangladesh. 

2020: Academic Research on Recent Paddy Price Fall and its impact on agrarian structure and socio-economic status of paddy farmer, under the Supervision of Dr.  Abul Hossain, Associate Professor and Chairperson, Department of Sociology and  Anthropology, Green University of Bangladesh. 

2019: Principal Researcher, Baseline Survey on Socio-Economic Condition of  Vulnerable Group in Rajarhaat, Kurigram, Funded by Jointly APON Foundation and  South Breeze Corporation, Dhaka. 

2019: Researcher, Baseline Survey on Socio-Economic and Health Status of Urban  Slum Children, Funded by APON Foundation. 

2019: Researcher, Impact Evaluation Research on 19 Regional Passport Office  (Second Revised), Implemented by Ministry of Home Affairs, Funded by  Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Department (IMED), Ministry of  Planning, GoB.  

2018: Researcher, Qualitative Evaluation Study on Sharique: Good Governance and  Administration Project, Funded by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation  (SDC), Implemented by Helvetas: Swiss Development Organization, Under the  Supervision of Dr, Abul Hossain, Associate Professor and Chairman, Department of  Sociology and Anthropology, Green University of Bangladesh, 220/D, Begum  Rokeya Sarani, Dhaka-12047.

2018: Researcher, Urban Governance and Contentious Politics in Dhaka City, Under the Supervision of Dr, Abul Hossain, Associate Professor and Chairman, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Green University of Bangladesh, 220/D, Begum  Rokeya Sarani, Dhaka-12047. 

2018: Principle Researcher, Knowledge Assessment of Faith Leaders and  Professionals to Promote Religious Harmony, Management Systems International  (MSI) and Council for Social Development Foundation (CSDF). 

2017: Researcher, Unfold Crisis of Women in RMG Sector, Funded by Share Biz,  Dhaka-12015. 

2016: Researcher, Role of Nakshikantha as folk art for Creating Rural Employment:  A Case Study from Jamalpur and Jessor District, Centre for Development and  Cultural Heritage Research (CDCHR), Funded by Planning Commission, Ministry of  Planning, 

2016: Researcher, Sociological Inquiry of Bengali Folk Song Foloi, Centre for  Development and Cultural Heritage Research (CDCHR), Funded by Planning  Commission, Ministry of Planning, Bangladesh. 

April, 2015 to June, 2015 (3 Months): Associate Researcher, Lesson Learned Study on Combating Violence Against Women and Girls (CVAWG) Program,  ManusherJonno Foundation (MJF), Dhaka. 

June, 2014 to June, 2016: Research Assistant, Parliamentary effectiveness: Public engagement for poverty reduction in Bangladesh and Ethiopia, A project of Hansard  Society, UK and University of London (SOAS), UK, under the supervision of Prof.  Dr. Zahir Uddin Ahmed, Dept. of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University. 

June, 2015 to February, 2016 (8 Months): Researcher, The numbers and characteristics of pilgrims in Bangladesh, Funded by King Sultan Foundation, Saudi  Arabia.  

June, 2015 to February, 2016 (8 Months): Researcher, Hajj and Pilgrims in  Bangladesh: Organization, Policy and Transformation, Funded by King Sultan  Foundation, Saudi Arabia.  

June, 2013 to December, 2014 (18 Months): Research Assistant, Small-scale  Irrigators in Noakhali in Bangladesh, A project of University of Sussex, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. ZahirUddin Ahmed, Dept. of Anthropology,  Jahangirnagar University. 

21 July, 2012 to 30 July, 2013 (1 Year): Researcher, Different Output Based Impact  Analysis of Health Service Provider Institutions’, Research Academia International,  Savar, Dhaka. 

15 June, 2012 to 15 July, 2012 (1 Month): Research Assistant, Bangladesh Urban  Health Landscape Analysis, Centre for Injury Prevention and Research in Bangladesh  (CIPRB), Mohakhali, Dhaka.

01 January, 2010 to 10 June, 2010 (6 Months): Research Assistant, Savar: As a  Probable Tourism Area, funded by Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. 

Self Funded Research 

1. Conflict and Cohesion: Reverse Realities among Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh 2. Anthrozoology: Emerging Perspectives of Bangladesh (Continuing) 

3. Livelihoods of Urban Mobile Paid Labourer (Continuing) 

4. Ethnographic Study on Munda People of Moulvibazar (Finished). 

Publication Highlights 

Book 

Abul Hossain and Ahsan Habib (2020). Paddy Cultivators: New Dimension of  Crisis (In Bengali). Tangon, Dhaka. 

Research articles  

Ahsan Habib and Abu Bakar Siddiq (2019). Social network as livelihood strategy  of floating labourers of Dhaka Metropolitan, Bangladesh. Artuklu Human and  Social Science Journal 4 (1), 43-50. 

Abul Hossain and Ahsan Habib (2019). Dynamics of Local Government and  Governance in the Context of Bangladesh. Green University Review of Social  Science, Vol. 5, Issue-1.  

Ahsan Habib, Fahmida Hossain, Tahsina Ferdous, and Khalilullah Muhammad  Bayezid, (2018) Social Networks and Social Ties: Changing Trends among Urban  Dwellers in Bangladesh. Open Access Library Journal, 5, 1-12. doi:  10.4236/oalib.1104604. 

Abu Bakar Siddiq, Ahsan Habib & Adil Hasan Chowdhury (2018). ‘Hunting gathering subsistence of Munda tribe in tropical rainforest of northeastern  Bangladesh’, Rajshahi University Journal of Culture and Society, Vol 1(1). 

Abu Bakar Siddiq and Ahsan Habib (2017). ‘The Formation of Bengal  Civilization: A Glimpse on the Socio-Cultural Assimilations through Political  Progressions in Bengal Delta’, Artuklu Human and Social Science Journal 2 (2): 1- 12. 

Abu Bakar Siddiq and Ahsan Habib (2017). ‘Antropoloji’de Ortaya Çıkan Çok Disiplinli Güçlü Bir Alt Bilim: Antrozooloji (Anthrozoology –An Emerging Robust  Multidisciplinary Subfield of Anthropological Science)’, Artuklu Human and Social Science Journal 2 (1): 22-35. 

Abu Bakar Siddiq and Ahsan Habib (2017). ‘Anthrozoology –An Emerging  Robust Multidisciplinary Subfield of Anthropological Science’, Green University  Review of Social Science, Vol. 3, Issue-1, 45-68.  

Abu Bakar Siddiq & Ahsan Habib (2016). ‘Ethno-archaeological notes on hunter gatherer Munda people in tropical rainforest of northeastern Bangladesh’Artuklu Human and Social Science Journal 1 (1): 13-21. 

Ahsan Habib & Asif Mizan(2016). ‘Current Notion of Rural Power Structure: An  Analysis from a Bangladeshi Village’, Asian Studies: Jahangirnagar University  Journal of Government and Politics, Vol. 35, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.  

Ahsan Habib (2015). ‘Urban Livelihood Strategy and Role of Social Capital  among the Mobile Wage Labor in Dhaka City in Bangladesh’, Journal of History  and Civilization, Department of Islamic History and Civilization, Vol. 2, Asian  University of Bangladesh. 

Zahir Ahmed & Ahsan Habib (2015). ‘The Livelihoods Approach and Innovation  of Small Scale Irrigation in Noakhali Char area in Bangladesh’, The Journal of  Social Studies, Vol. 147, Centre for Social Studies, Dhaka. 

Ahsan Habib (2014). ‘Transformation of Rural Power Structure’ (In Bengali), In:  Zahir Ahmed (ed.) Anthropological Approaches to Contemporary Bangladesh,  Society for Anthropological Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 

Book Review 

Ahsan Habib (2017), Bangladesh Studies, Originally Written by Md. Thowhidul  Islam, Md. Enayet Ullah Patwary and Md. Cholem Ullah, Published by BIIT, Dhaka 1230, pp. 355, ISBN: 978-984-8471-59-3, Bangladesh Journal of Islamic Thought,  13(20), 2017: 93-112, ISSN 1816-689X. 

Ahsan Habib & Abu Bakar Siddiq (2017), Islame Samaj Biggan (Sociology in  Islam) Originally Written by Dr. M. Muslehuddin and Dr. Ismail Raji al-Faruqi,  Published by BIIT, Dhaka-1230, Bangladesh Journal of Islamic Thought, Vol. 13, No.  19, 81-86. 

Conference/Seminar Paper 

(2018). ‘Biswa Ijtema and Akheri Munajat: An Anthropological Exploration as  Intangible Cultural Heritage’, International seminar on ‘Heritage of South & South  East Asia: Issues on Musealisation’ under ‘UGC-UPE II Project under focus area :  India Looking East’, Department of Museology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata,  India. 

(2018). ‘Ramifications of political decadence: The rise of extremism in  Bangladesh’, Mahatma Gandhi International Congress on Multidisciplinary Studies,  September 25-28, 2018, New Delhi – INDIA. 

(2014). ‘Changing Nature of Rural Power Structure in Bangladesh: A  Foucauldian Analysis’, First International Conference on Social Sciences and  Humanities, Centre for Social Science and Research (CSSR), Independent University  of Bangladesh (IUB). 

Ahsan Habib & Ranjan Partho (2016). ‘Indigenous Understanding of Textual  Knowledge: A Case from the Book of ‘Agricultural Studies’, International  Conference on Teaching and Learning (ICTL), Centre for Pedagogy (CP),  Independent University of Bangladesh.  

Anwar Hossain & Ahsan Habib (2014). ‘Changing Gender Relation and End of  Domestic Violence: A Case of Professional Women in Dhaka City’, First International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities, Centre for Social  Science and Research (CSSR), Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB). 

Research (Unpublished) 

1. Plants and Animal Based Therapies in Bangladesh. 

2. Resistance, Regeneration and Reformation of Women: A Study/Review of The Breadwinner 

3. Ramifications of political decadence: the rise of religious extremism in  Bangladesh 

4. Premarital and Extramarital Relationships among the Slum Dwellers  

Working Paper (Unpublished) 

(2019). Mobile Paid Labour in Dhaka City: Livelihood, Problem and Prospects (2018). Muslims, Emerging Extremism and Crisis of Religious Identity in Bangladesh (2017). Livelihood Diversification and Social Network among Day Laborers in Dhaka  City in Bangladesh 

(2017). Resistance, regeneration and reformation: A Sociological Review of The  Breadwinner. 

Professional Experience on Extremism 

◻ Working on ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’ as a Bangladesh Coordinator of Strong Cities Network, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) from 1st July to  present.  

◻ Technical Advisor, Social Mobilization of Youth for Lessening Extremism  (SMYLE) project in 2018-2019 under SAMPREETI project of Manusher Jonno  Foundation (MJF) Funded by The Global Community Engagement and Resilience  Fund (GCERF). 

◻ Advisor of Empowering Female Students with Peace Building Skills project of  Council for Social Development Foundation (CSDF), Funded by USAID’s  Obirodh: Road to Tolerance Program. 

Teaching Experience 

June 01, 2018 to Present: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,  Green University of Bangladesh, Dhaka-1207. 

May 31, 2016 to Present: Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,  Green University of Bangladesh, Dhaka-1207. 

January 20, 2012 to May 30, 2016: Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,  Asian University of Bangladesh, Uttara, Dhaka. 

January, 2013 to April, 2014: Part-time Lecturer, General Education (GED) section,  Department of Business Administration, Bangladesh Islamic University, Dhaka.

Education 

2009-2010 MSS in Anthropology (Score: 3.54/4) 

Thesis title: Food security in rural Bangladesh: In the context of a village of  Madaripur district, Bangladesh.  

2005 – 2009 BSS in Anthropology (Score: 3.60/4) 

Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.  

Dissertation title:  Changing pattern of rural power structure in 21st century: In the context of a Bangladeshi village.

Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.  

2005 Alim Examination (Score: 4.25 /5) 

Group: Humanities, Board: Madrasha 

2004 (Improvement) Dakhil Examination (Score: 4.25 /5) 

Group: Humanities, Board: Madrasha 

Courses Offered 

2020: Research Methodology I, Research Methodology II, Medical Sociology,  Gender and Society, Peasant Society, Social Structure of Bangladesh. 

2019: Social Inequality, Research Methodology I, Research Methodology II, Gender  and Development, Medical Sociology, Peasant Society, Social Structure of  Bangladesh. 

2018: Language and Anthropology, Social Inequality, Bangladesh Studies, Social  Problems, Research Methodology I, Research Methodology II, Sustainable  Development, Social Statistics, Gender and Development, Medical Sociology. 

2017: Language and Anthropology, Social Forestry, Bangladesh Studies, Social Problems, Research Methodology I, Research Methodology II, Sustainable Development, Social Statistics. 

2016: Social Anthropology, Methods of Social Research-1, Methods of Social  Research-2, Introduction to Anthropology, Introduction to Women Studies, Social  Inequality, Sustainable Development, Language and Anthropology, Bangladesh  Studies. 

2015: Social Anthropology, Methods of Social Research-1, Methods of Social  Research-2, Comparative Social System, Introduction to Anthropology, Introduction  to Women Studies. 

2014: Health and Environment, Social Anthropology, Methods of Social Research-1,  Methods of Social Research-2, Comparative Social System. 

2013: Introduction Sociology, Methods of Social Research-2, Social Anthropology,  Health and Environment, Introduction to Women Studies. 

2012: Introduction to Anthropology, Methods of Social Research-1, Comparative  Social System, Social Anthropology. 

Professional Training and Certificate 

• Successfully completed 4 months long certificate course on Certificate in  Teaching and Learning (CTL), Green University Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning, Green University of Bangladesh. 

• Attended to the BNCC winter collective training 2006-2007 (3 weeks)  organized by Bangladesh Army. 

• Attended to VDP fundamental training during 09.08.2003 to 20.08.2003  organized by Home Ministry. 

• A week long training course on Feature writing during 07.02.2008 to  14.02.2008 by Centre for Advance Media (CAM) 

Co-curricular Activities and Professional Affiliation 

• Moderator, Green University Social Bonding Club. 

• Mentor Moderator, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Green  University Mentorship Program. 

• Co-founder and executive member, Conscious Consumers Society (CCS). • Executive Member, Apon Foundation 

• Ex Member to the Jahangirnagar University Journalists’ Association (JUJA). • Ex Member (Rotaractor) of Rotaract Club of Jahangirnagar Dhaka, (Students’  wing of Rotary International). 

• Ex-member (Cadet) of Bangladesh National Cadet Core (BNCC), JU  Contingent. 

• Ex Member of “Jahangirnagar Theater”, Jahangirnagar University, Savar,  Dhaka-1342. 

Personal Profile 

Full name : Ahsan Habib 

Father’s Name : Abdul Kader Sardar 

Mother’s Name : Nurjahan 

Date of birth : 12.10.1988, Madaripur, Bangladesh.  

Marital Status : Married  

Religion : Muslim (Sunni)  

Nationality : Bangladeshi by Birth  

Passport no : BN 0315294 

Present Address : House # 202/4/A, West Kafrul,  

Taltola, Agargaon, Dhaka-1207 

Permanent Address : Vill: Kalai Sardarer Char, PO: Enayet Nagar PS: Kalkini, District- Madaripur.

Referees  

Dr. Abul Hossen 

Associate Professor and Chairperson Department of Sociology & Anthropology Green University of Bangladesh 

Dhaka-1207 

Email: [email protected], [email protected] 

Mobile: +880 1716 972908 

Dr. Abu Bakar Siddiq 

Assistant Professor 

Department of Anthropology Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey Email: [email protected] Mobile: +90 551 723 17 98

Ahsan Habib