Samia Huq, PhD

Samia Huq is Dean of the School of General Education and Professor of Anthropology at Brac University, Bangladesh. She obtained her PhD from Brandeis University, USA, looking at women’s religious discussion groups in urban Bangladesh. As Dean of the core curriculum, her task in to build and consolidate the liberal arts and sciences in general education and inter-departmental offerings through the creation and curation of courses, embedding a liberal arts teaching and learning and building co-curricular pathways for civic engagement and leadership as essential ingredients of the Brac U student experience. Dr. Huq is also Research Fellow at the Center for Peace and Justice (CPJ) at Brac University where she runs the project on Faith and Development in collaboration with the World Faiths Development Dialogue at Georgetown University. As part of the project, Dr Huq is exploring the intersection of faith and development around questions of education, gender equality and aspirations of the youth, facilitating dialogues between faith inspired and secular development actors on these issues. Dr. Huq has been involved in research on the impact of secondary secular and madrasa education on gendered norms and practices, as part of the Initiative on Education, Gender and Growth in Asia http://www.integgra.org/index.php, authored and involved in the International Panel for Social Progress https://www.ipsp.org/ and Musawah https://www.musawah.org/. Dr. Huq is the Chief Academic Officer (CAO) representing Brac University at the Open Society University Network (OSUN) https://opensocietyuniversitynetwork.org/, building bridges between various Brac U academic programs and universities within OSUN and overseeing student and faculty mobility and other exchanges between Brac U and OSUN partners. Dr. Huq also sits on the board of several national NGOs and think tanks. She is author of several peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and currently working on her monograph on women, Islam and modernity in Bangladesh.

Professor (ESS) and Dean, General Education,
School of General Education

Professor (ESS) and Dean, General Education,
Department of Economics and Social Sciences

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66 Mohakhali
Dhaka 1212

04478444063 Ext. 4207
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Book Chapters

Huq, S. (2018). Tolerance in Bangladesh: Discourses of state and society. In H. Iqtidar & T. Sarkar (Eds.), Tolerance, Secularization and Democratic Politics in South Asia (pp. 134–155). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1017/9781108582834.006

Davie, G., T. Ammerman, N., Huq, S., Leustean, L. N., Masoud, T., Moon, S., … Zurlo, G. (2018). Religions and Social Progress: Critical Assessments and Creative Partnerships. In International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) (Ed.), Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Report of the International Panel on Social Progress: Volume 3: Transformations in Values, Norms, Cultures (Vol. 3, pp. 641–676). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1017/9781108399661.003

Huq, S. (2014). Religious learning circles and Da’wa: The modalities of educated Bangladeshi women preaching Islam. In Proselytizing and the Limits of Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Asia (pp. 81–101). Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-18-5_5

Huq, S. (2014). Muslim Aspirations in Bangladesh: Looking Back and Redrawing Boundaries. In R. Jeffrey & S. Ronojoy (Eds.), Being Muslim in South Asia: Diversity and Daily Life. USA: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198092063.003.0012

Huq, S. (2014). Islam in urban Bangladesh: Changing worldviews and reconfigured sexuality. In C. Pereira (Ed.), Changing Narratives of Sexuality: Contestations, Compliance and Women’s Empowerment (Feminisms and Development). Zed Books.

Journals

Huq, S. (2021). Recasting politics and reimagining Islam: Beyond contested nationalisms in Bangladesh. Economic and Political Weekly, 56(3). Retrieved from https://www.epw.in/engage/article/recasting-politics-and-reimagining-isl...

Huq, S. (2013). Defining self and other Bangladesh’s secular aspirations and its writing of Islam. Economic and Political Weekly, 48(50), 51–61.

Huq, S. (2011). Piety, music and gender transformation: Reconfiguring women as culture bearing markers of modernity and nationalism in Bangladesh. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 12(2), 225–239. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2011.554650

Huq, S. (2011). Discussing the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) rebellion: Non-Islamist women and religious revival in urban Bangladesh. Contemporary Islam, 5(3), 267–283. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-011-0165-8

Huq, S. (2010). Negotiating Islam: Conservatism, splintered authority and empowerment in Urban Bangladesh. IDS Bulletin, 41(2), 97–105. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2010.00128.x

Huq, S., & Rashid, S. F. (2008). Refashioning Islam: Elite women and piety in Bangladesh. Contemporary Islam, 2(1), 7–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-007-0029-4

Newspaper/Newsletter Articles

Huq, S. (2018). Religion and social flourishing in Asia. THE NEWSLETTER 81 AUTUMN 2018. Retrieved from https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/religion-social-flourishing...

Huq, S. (2012, May). Secularism and the freedom to transform lives. The Imminent Frame: Secularism, Religion and the Public Sphere. Retrieved from http://tif.ssrc.org/2012/05/03/secularism-and-the-freedom-to-transform-l...
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Introduction to Anthropology, Religion and Society, Gender and Islam, Contemporary Issues in Anthropological theory.
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Religious Revival, Religious Identity, Religion, Politics, Social Movements and Secularism, Practices and Attitudes around Democracy.

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