Dr Nahid Afrose Kabir

Dr Nahid Afrose Kabir is an adjunct senior research fellow in the School of Education at the University of South Australia. Nahid Kabir is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Humanities at BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is also an Adjunct Professor and Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University in Washington DC, USA, and holds an Adjunct Professor position at 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. Nahid Kabir was a visiting fellow in the “Islam in the West” program at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, USA in 2009–2011.

Since 2005, Nahid Kabir has 54 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) and Muslim Americans: Debating the Notions of American and Un-American (London: Routledge 2017). 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. 

Member, American Academy of Religion; Member, Editorial Board, Australian Journal of Islamic StudiesMember; RC 05 Ethnic, Race and Minority Relations in International Sociological Association

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy University of Queensland

• Master of Arts in History University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Masters of Arts in Historical Studies University of Queensland