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.
School of General Education
Professor (ESS) and Dean, General Education,
Department of Economics and Social Sciences
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Dhaka 1212