Gazi Md Mizanur Rahman, PhD
Assistant Professor
With a background in transnational and spatial history as well as historical migration and diasporas in modern Asia, Dr Gazi Mizanur Rahman is an Assistant Professor of History at the BRAC University of Bangladesh. Prior to joining the BRACU, he was a teaching assistant at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam (2019), an adjunct faculty at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (2021-22), North South University (2022), and Bangladesh Islami University (2014-2016).
Address
Level: 5
Kha-224 Merul Badda
Dhaka 1212. Bangladesh
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Education
+–Rahman holds a BA (Hons, 2005), an MA (2007), an MPhil (2013) in History from the University of Dhaka, and a PhD with Distinction (2021) from the Universiti Brunei Darussalam.
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Publications
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Rahman, G. M. (2014). Publicity in the liberation war of Bangladesh (Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, Campaigns Abroad and Formation of Public Opinion). In A. K. M. Shawaneaz (Ed.), History of the emergence of Independent Bangladesh (pp. 296–305). CBO Publications.
Journals
Rahman, G. M. (2021). Connectedness and pandemics: Notes on connectivity and transmission of the bubonic plague in South Asia. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Humanities), 66(2), 153–168. https://www.asiaticsociety.org.bd/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Humanities_...
Rahman, G. M. (2019). Transnational history and colonial records: Locating Bengali mobility in the British Malaya. Journal of Maritime Studies and National Integration, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.14710/jmsni.v3i2.6267
Rahman, G. M. (2014). Unish Satake Dhaka Shaharer Ninmnabargher Parichaya. Bangla Academy Patrika: A Quarterly Research Journal, 1–2(January-June).
Rahman, G. M. (2012). Unish satake Dhaka Shaharer Ninmnabargher Artha-Samajik Obstha (The Socio-economic Condition of Subalterns of Dhaka City during the Nineteenth Century). Journal of Bangladesh Asiatic Society, 30(Winter), 249–278.
Encyclopedia Articles
Habibullah, M., & Rahman, G. M. (2012). Sugar industry. In S. Islam (Ed.), Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (2nd ed., Vol. 13, pp. 396–397). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Sugar_Industry
Rahman, G. M. (2012). Bhati region. In S. Islam (Ed.), Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (2nd ed., Vol. 3, pp. 32–33). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Bhati_Region
Rahman, G. M. (2012). Paltan. In S. Islam (Ed.), Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (2nd ed., Vol. 11, pp. 78–79). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Paltan
Rahman, G. M. (2012). Sarbadaliya Chhatra Sangram Parishad. In S. Islam (Ed.), Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (2nd ed., Vol. 12, pp. 415–418). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Sarbadaliya_Chhatra_Sangram_P...
Rahman, G. M. (2012). Muqim Katra. In S. Islam (Ed.), Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Vol. 10, p. 132). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Muqim_Katra
Rahman, G. M. (2012). Holy Rosary Church. In M. S. Islam (Ed.), Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (2nd ed., Vol. 7, pp. 144–145). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Holy_Rosary_Church
Magazine Articles
Rahman, G. M. (2014). Indigenous community in Nachole. Baichatra Baibabha, 5(1), 14–17.
Rahman, G. M. (2014). The Santal people in Nachole. Baichatra Baibabha, 5(1), 26–27.
Conference Proceeding
Rahman, G. M. (2022). Colonising the Penal Capital: Locating the Bengali Convicts in Cosmopolitan British Malaya,” Asian Studies, The Twelfth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12), ICAS Conference Proceedings, University of Amsterdam Press, Jun 2022, Volume 1, pp. 569 – 582, ISBN: 9789048557820; DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/9789048557820/ICAS.2022.066
Book Review
Rahman, G. M. (2022). [Review of the book China and the Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society under Mao, by Xiaoping Fang]. World Medical & Health Policy, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wmh3.510
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Professional Activities
+–- Listed reviewer, World History Encyclopedia, United Kingdom.
- Listed reviewer, South East Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal (SEAMJ), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei.
- Listed reviewer, Journal of Maritime Studies and National Integration (JMSNI), Diponegoro University, Indonesia.
- Associate Member, Centre of South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Sunway University, Malaysia.
- Member, Midwest World History Association, Illinois, USA.
- Associate Member, Bangladesh Archives and Records Management Society (BARMS), Bangladesh.
- Associate Member, Friends of Archives, Bangladesh (FAB), Bangladesh.
- Lifetime member, Bangladesh Itihas Parishad, University of Dhaka.
- Lifetime member, Bangladesh Itihas Samity, University of Dhaka.
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Courses Taught
+–Dr Rahman taught different courses such as the History of Bangladesh, the Emergence of Bangladesh, Environmental History of Bangladesh, Ethnic Identity and Nationalism, World Civilisation, and Modern South Asia.
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Conferences, Talks, and Speaking Engagements
+–He attended various conferences and academic forums in different countries, namely Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, the USA, and the UK. Selected papers are given below:
“Socio-cultural Spaces of the Bengali migrants in Cosmopolitan British Malaya,” organized by the Queen’s University Belfast and University of Gothenburg, Northern Ireland, UK and Sweden, 22 April 2022.
“Colonial Migration in Global South and Some Challenges in Archival Records,” organized by the Ohio Academy of History, University of Akron, USA, 8-9 April 2022.
“Mapping Bengali Anti-Colonial Mobility in Malaya, 1910-1945,” Centre for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies (SAIOS), Sunway University, Malaysia, 30-31 October 2021.“Modern World History and Colonial Records: Some challenges in reconstructing the historical migration,” Eleventh Annual Conference of the Midwest World History Association, Lewis University, Illinois, USA, 24-25 September 2021.
“Colonising the Penal Body: Passage of the Convicts from Bengal to the Malay Peninsula,” Brunei-Malaysia Forum 2021, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei, 14-15 September 2021.
“Colonising the Penal Capital: Locating the Bengali Convicts in Cosmopolitan British Malaya,” 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Kyoto Seika University (SEIKA), Japan, 24-27 August 2021.
““Systematic Quantification” of Ethnicities: Space-Making of Bengali Transnational Families in Cosmopolitan Singapore,” Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 14-15 January 2021.
“Transregional Connectivity Between Bengal and the Malay World: An Outlook from Textual and Colonial Context,” South Asian Studies Association, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA, 5-7 February 2021.
“Connectedness and Pandemics: Notes on Connectivity and Transmission of the Bubonic Plague in South Asia,” University of South Florida, USA, 19-21 February 2021.
“Lost in Mobility? Locating the Bengalis in the Public Space of Modern Singapore,” 13rd Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2018.
“A Plural Society: Locating the Bengalis in multi-ethnic British Malaya,” Faculty of Social Sciences and Arts, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia, 5-7 November 2018.“Passage to Malaya: Mapping Bengali diaspora in the multi-ethnic Malay world, 1830-1919,” 12th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2017.
“The Socio-economic Condition of Subalterns of Dhaka City in the Nineteenth Century,” Bangladesh History Association, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2012.
“The Commencement of British Colonial Rule in Bengal: A Review,” Bangladesh History Parisad, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2011.
Apart from attending the abovementioned conferences, Dr Rahman has also been nominated as chair on the panels for the 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12) at Kyoto Seika University, Japan.
SELECTED TALKS: “Archives and Records Management Focusing on National Archives of Bangladesh,” venue: Prothom Alo office, organised by Friends of Archives, Bangladesh and Bhandusaba, Prothom Alo, 4 May 2013.
INVITED TALKS: “The Austric People in the Bengal Delta: Migration and Discontents of the Santal Community,” Summer Course Program, Center for Asian Studies, Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia, 2nd November 2022. -
Awards, Honors
+–He has received different scholarships, fellowships, and grants from several institutions. He was awarded the Merit-based Scholarship for BA (Hons) and the Academic Roll of Honour for MA from the University of Dhaka. He also received the prestigious UBD Graduate Scholarship for PhD; the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore; FASS, UBD Travel Grants; a conference fund from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, and the Lewis University, Illinois, USA. Dr Rahman has also obtained the UBD Bursary Award.
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Membership
+–He is a member of different scholarly bodies, notably the Bangladesh History Association, Bangladesh Archives and Records Management Society (BARMS), the Midwest World History Association in the USA, and the Centre of South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies of Sunway University, Malaysia.
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Research Areas/Interests
+–His research focuses on various areas, exceptionally connected histories between South and Southeast Asia, world history, cosmopolitanism, and multiculturalism. He is interested in Bengal studies, Connected Histories, particularly Modern South and Southeast Asia, Historical Migration and Diasporas, Transnational History, World Civilisation, Environmental History, and the History of Global Health.