Anthropology

    Faculty Profile

    A K M Mazharul Islam

    Professor

    Contact Information:

    • Office Address: Room no: 1014, Academic Building D, Department of Anthropology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, 3114, Sylhet, Bangladesh
    • Phone: 880-821-714479-270, 8801711346909
    • Email: akmmislam@gmail.com, mazharul-anp@sust.edu

    External Affiliations:

    • Adjunct Professor, BRAC James P Grant, School of Public Health, BRAC University
    • Executive Director, Institute of Applied Anthropology

    Awards & Recognition:

    • 2006- Appreciation Certificate Award, Clinton Foundation, USA
    • 2006-National Honors Society Award of Achievement, USA
    • 2006-Dean’s Award, Minnesota State University, USA

    Journal Publications

    1. AKM Mazharul Islam, 2021 A Tint of the Story of Covid-19. Covid-19 Diary. Zahir Ahmed and Haridur Rahman edited. Dhaka: SARB
    2. Carina King, Nicholas Boyd, Isabeau Walker, Beatiwel Zadutsa, Abdullah H Baqui, Salahuddin Ahmed, Mazharul Islam, Eric D McCollum, 2018, Opportunities and barriers in paediatric pulse oximetry for pneumonia in low-resource clinical settings: a qualitative evaluation from Malawi and Bangladesh BMJ Open, Vol 8. Issue 1
    3. Miah Md. Shahgahan and AKM Mazharul Islam, 2017, Alternative Health Options in Bangladesh: Knowledge, Power, and Politics, Man and Culture, ISRAA, Vol.2 No.2
    4. Islam, Mazharul AKM Accessing the World of Birth Attendants in Bangladesh: Experience from the Field In Pains and Pleasures of Fieldwork edited by Anwarullah Chowdhury Ananya, Dhaka, 2015
    5. Islam, Mazharul AKM Khasis in Transition in Bangladesh, Journal of the University of Hyderabad, India, 2014
    6. Islam, Mazharul AKM Food, Nutrition and Health Care: diverse conceptions amongst adolescent population in a semi-urban Bangladeshi Muslim community. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science, Vol13, No 04, 2014
    7. Islam, Mazharul AKM, Winch, Peter, Sharmin, Tamanna Traditional Birth Attendants: Training and Identity, Family Health International 2013
    8. Islam, Mazharul, AKM, 2012 Bangladesher Cha Shilpe Khudro Nrigushthi, Dhaka: Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy
    9. Islam, Mazharul AKM, 2011 Occupational Isolation amongst the Khais: Cultural Materialism in the Make, Journal of Applied Anthropology, Centre for Tribal Studies, Rajib Gandhi University, Arunachal, India
    10. Islam, Mazharul AKM Identity, Ecology, and Modernity: Khasi in Transition in Bangladesh, Journal of Tribal Studies, India, 2010
    11. Islam, AKM Mazharul, Anthropologist’s Take on Children: An Inquisition. Jamila Milila Islamia, New Delhi, India, 2009
    12. Islam, AKM Mazharul, Nutritional Situation at the aftermath of Cyclone Sidr in the Southern Region of Bangladesh. Jamila Milila Islamia, New Delhi, India, 2008
    13. Islam, Mazharul AKM, Michel, Winifred Ethics in Anthropological Field Work. Practicing Anthropology. Vol. 26.No.1 Spring, 2004
    14. Islam, Mazharul, AKM Ethnic Communities in Bangladesh, The Encyclopedia of Bangladesh, The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, 2003
    15. Islam, Mazharul, AKM. Ethnicity, The Encyclopedia of Bangladesh, The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, 2003
    16. Islam, Mazharul, AKM Refugee, The Encyclopedia of Bangladesh, The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, 2003
    17. Islam, Mazharul AKM Crime, The Encyclopedia of Bangladesh, The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, 2003
    18. Islam, Mazharul AKM, Anthropology of Art, Bulletin Of the National Museum of Bangladesh, 2003 Dhaka,Vol8, August, 2003
    19. Islam, Mazharul AKM Use of Water among the Ethnic Communities: A Study in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Social Science Review, University of Dhaka, Vo13, July, 2002
    20. Islam, Mazharul, AKM Walking Softly through the Wilderness: An Anthropological Encounter on Jhum and Other Agricultural Practices in Chittagong Hill Tracts. In Contemporary Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, 2000
    21. Hafez MA., Rahim MA., Islam Mazharul AKM Socio-demographic and Cultural Characteristics of Malaria patients in the plains, Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine, April, 1999
    22. Islam, Mazharul, AKM Solid Waste Culture in the City of Dhaka: An Anthropological Investigation, Bulletin of Bangladesh Environmental Society, February, 1998