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Dr Nahid Afrose Kabir
School of Education
College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences
Nahid Afrose Kabir, PhD, is a Professor of History in the Department of English and Humanities at BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She holds an Adjunct Professor position at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, and Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. She holds a PhD, two Masters and a Bachelor (Hons) degree; all in History.
Dr Kabir worked as a senior research fellow at the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding at the University of South Australia, 2011-2016, and as a research fellow at the Edith Cowan University in Perth, 2005-2010.
From 2016 to 2021, Dr Kabir was a Visiting Researcher in the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and from 2009 to 2011, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
In 2022, Nahid Kabir was the recipient of the Senior Star Scholar Research Excellence Award at BRAC University.
Since 2005, Nahid Kabir has more than 60 peer-reviewed publications. She is the author of Muslims in Australia: Immigration, Race Relations and Cultural History (London: Routledge 2005); Young British Muslims: Identity, Culture, Politics and the Media (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2010), Young American Muslims: Dynamics of Identity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2013), Muslim Americans: Debating the Notions of American and Un-American (London: Routledge 2017), and American Muslim Perspectives on Radicalization (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, and Cham, Switzerland 2023). She is also the author of “Muslim Minorities in the World Today”, published in The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture, Islam in the World Today, Vol. 6, Part 2, Paris: UNESCO Publishing 2016, pp. 247-459.
- Qualitative research
- Identity
- Cultural diversity
- Gender studies
- Media studies
- Security studies
- Islam and politics
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