Nasir Uddin Cultural Anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

Nasir Uddin is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He studied and carried out research at the University of Oxford (UK), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at London University (UK), the London School of Economics (LSE) at London University (UK), Heidelberg University (Germany), VU Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany), Delhi School of Economics at Delhi University (India), the University of Hull (UK), Kyoto University (Japan), and the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh). He has received 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 and Asian Studies Fellowship at East-West Center, Washington, DC, USA. His latest edited book is Deterritorialised Identity and Transborder Movement in South Asia (2019, co-edited with Nasreen Chowdhory). His latest monograph is The Rohingya: An Ethnography of ‘Subhuman’ Life (2020).