Nasir Uddin

Nasir Uddin (PhD) is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong. Uddin carried out research at the University of Oxford (UK), the University of Sydney (Australia), the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at London University (UK), the London School of Economics (LSE) at London University (UK), Johns Hopkins University (USA), East-West Center, Washington DC (USA), Heidelberg University (Germany), VU University Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany), Delhi School of Economics at Delhi University (India), the University of Hull (UK), Kyoto University (Japan), the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh) and the University of Chittagong (Bangladesh). He has achieved a good number of prestigious awards and fellowships including the MEXT Scholarship, the British Academy Visiting Scholarship, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, a Visiting Scholarship at LSE, a Visiting Fellowship at Oxford University, the Asian Studies Fellowship at East-West Center, Washington, DC, James Social Science Fellowship at the University of Sydney and Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Kyoto University. He has published scholarly pieces extensively with globally leading publishing houses including the Cambridge University Press, the Oxford University Press, the University of Pennsylvania Press, Routledge, SAGE, Springer, Palgrave McMillan, Berghahn, Bloomsbury, OrientBlackSwan and so on. His latest edited books include “Life in Peace and Conflict: Indigeneity and the State in the Chittagong Hill Tracts” (Orient BlackSwan, 2017), “Indigeneity on the Move: Varying Manifestation of a Contested Concept” (Berghahn, 2017 [co-edited with Eva Gerharz and Pradeep Chakkarath]), “Deterritorialised Identity and Transborder Movement in South Asia” (Springer, 2019 [co-edited with NasreenChowdhory]) and “The Rohingya Crisis: Human Rights Issues, Policy Concerns and Burden Sharing” (SAGE, 2021). His latest book is “The Rohingya: An Ethnography of ‘Subhuman’ Life” (The Oxford University Press, 2020). Uddin’s theory of "Subhuman" life is widely discussed in the area of scholarship on refugees, migrants, non-citizens, asylum seekers, stateless, IDPs and forcedly displaced people.