Nasir Uddin

Who is Nasir Uddin?

Nasir Uddin is a cultural anthropologist, post-colonial theorist and prolific writer on issues ranging from human rights, adivasi issues, everyday forms of discriminations, stateness in people's everyday life, representation of media, the politics of fabrication to state-society relations in Bangladesh and South Asia.

Uddin graduated with a BSS in Anthropology in 1999 and a Master's in Anthropology in 2000, from the University of Dhaka. In January 2001, he joined the Department of Anthropology of the University of Chittagong as a lecturer and was promoted to an Assistant Professor in 2003. He was awarded Japan Government Scholarship in 2004 and joined Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, at Kyoto University, as a PhD student in Area Studies with a major of Cultural Anthropology. He carried out ethnographic fieldwork in the Chittagong Hill Tracts towards writing his dissertation for PhD Degree which was conferred in March 2008. Uddin’s dissertation is about ethnic mobility, transition in everyday life, politics of marginality and engendering leadership among the marginalised adivasi of the CHT. He was promoted to an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Chittagong University in mid-year 2009. In the same year, Uddin was awarded "British Academy Visiting Fellowship 2009" to conduct postdoctoral level research in the University of Hull, UK. As a British Academy Fellow, Uddin did part of his research at many leading universities and institutions in the UK, including Cambridge University, School of Oriental and Asian Studies, University College London, Manchester University, Oxford University, Durham University, the British Library, UK national archive, Center for Anthropology at British Museum and UK parliament archive. Soon after finishing his UK project, Uddin conducted advanced research on "The State of Ethnic Minority in the State-formation in Post-colonial State: Experience from Bangladesh" as an Affiliated Fellow of the Department of Sociology at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi in the first half of 2011.