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Samia Huq, PhD

Samia Huq is an anthropologist and Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Social Science at BRAC University, Dhaka. She obtained her PhD from Brandeis University, USA, looking at women’s religious discussion groups in urban Bangladesh. Her current research includes cultural activism of Bengali Muslims of East Pakistan, and 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. Dr. Huq also coordinates the BRAC University-Georgetown University Speakers’ Forum series on faith and development, which consists of public forums and student engagement with local and international scholars, and activists on topics relevant to faith and development. As part of the collaboration with Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Dr. Huq is also engaged in ethnographic research on faith inspired development actors in two districts of Bangladesh http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/subprojects/country-mapping-bangladesh. Dr. Huq has also worked on the Global Life Stories Project with Musawah: For Equality in the Muslim Family. She is a lead author for the chapter on Religions, Worldviews and Society in the "International Panel on Social Progress" working with scholars from multiple Northers and Southern Universities towards a volume on the meaning and contours of social progress for the 21st century, https://www.ipsp.org/

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

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


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66 Mohakhali
Dhaka 1212

04478444063 Ext. 5068
shuq@bracu.ac.bd


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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. (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...

  • Courses Taught

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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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