Dr. Samia Huq is currently serving as Research Fellow of the Centre for Peace and Justice, Brac University as well as an Associate Professor and Interim Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at BRAC University. She obtained her Ph.D. from Brandeis University, where her research explored 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. Dr. Huq is also engaged in ethnographic research on faith-inspired development actors in two districts of Bangladesh (click here to read) and she has worked on the Global Life Stories Project with Musawah: For Equality in the Muslim Family, and is one of Musawah’s global advocates. In addition, she coordinates the BRAC University-Georgetown University Speakers’ Forum series on faith and development.
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.
