Professor of History, Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Email: n.kabir@bracu.ac.bd
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 ... Read more
About me
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) 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.
About me
Member, American Academy of Religion; Member, Editorial Board, Australian Journal of Islamic StudiesMember; RC 05 Ethnic, Race and Minority Relations in International Sociological Association
About me
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 11/12/2015 |
Dr Nahid Afrose Kabir was interviewed on RTHK (Hong Kong), during an interview titled “Donald Trump and Attitude towards Muslims”., http://programme.rthk.org.hk/channel/radio/programme.php?name=radio3/backchat&d=2015-12-11&p=514&e=332155&m=episode |
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of Queensland
Master of Arts in History University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Masters of Arts in Historical Studies University of Queensland
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Public Forum Report, 2015: Muslim Migrants in South Australia: Work, Immigration and Aspirations
Current research projects:
Muslims in India: Young Muslims’ Identity in a Religiously Diverse Society. (Twenty Really Good Grants Scheme, TRGGS: ARC Discovery Project, UniSA internal grant 2012).
An Investigation into the Radicalization of Young American Muslims.
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
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| 2021 |
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| 2019 |
4
1
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| 2018 |
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| 2016 |
3
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| 2016 |
Open access
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| 2016 |
Open access
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| 2016 |
Open access
3
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| 2016 |
Open access
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| 2016 |
Open access
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| 2016 |
Open access
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| 2016 |
Open access
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| 2016 |
Open access
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| 2015 |
8
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| 2014 |
2
3
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| 2012 |
12
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| 2011 |
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2022 |
Open access
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| 2021 |
1
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| 2020 |
Open access
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| 2020 |
6
5
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| 2016 |
6
3
2
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| 2016 |
3
1
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| 2015 |
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| 2015 |
7
5
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| 2014 |
7
6
3
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| 2011 |
12
10
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| 2009 |
Open access
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| 2009 |
Open access
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2010 |
Open access
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| 2008 |
Open access
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| 2008 |
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Dr Kabir's books reviews have been published in the following journals:
Research
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Edith Cowan University | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
Research Consultant, UNESCO; Member, American Academy of Religion; Member, Editorial Board, Australian Journal of Islamic Studies; RC 05 Ethnic, Race and Minority Relations in International Sociological Association; The Bangladesh Australia Hub Inc. (BAH).
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| A narrative study of the leadership stories of Indonesian female senior high school principals | Completed |
| Factors affecting interfaith dialogue: personal views and experiences of Uniting Church Christians and Sunni Muslims of Adelaide, Australia | Completed |
| Is secularism failing in Bangladesh? An exploration of interactions between Islam and Secularism, 1972¿2017 | Completed |
| The question of jihadism: a critique of Eurocentric reason | Completed |
