Nasir Uddin (ড.নাসির উদ্দিন)[1] is a cultural anthropologist, post-colonial theorist and prolific writer on human rights and adivasi (indigenous people) issue[2] based mainly in Bangladesh. Dr. Uddin graduated with BSS (honours) and MSS in Anthropology in 1999 and 2000 respectively from the University of Dhaka. In January 2001, he joined the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong as lecturer and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2003. He was awarded Japan Government Scholarship (MEXT) in 2004 and joined the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS) at Kyoto University as PhD student in Area Studies with a major of Cultural Anthropology. He carried out long-term ethnographic fieldwork (from November 2005 to April 2007) in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) towards writing his dissertation for PhD degree which was awarded in March 2008. Dr. Uddin’s dissertation is about ethnic mobility, transition in everyday life, politics of marginality and engendering leadership among the marginalised adivasi of the CHT. He was promoted to Associate Professor of Anthropology at Chittagong University in mid-year 2009. In the same year, Dr. Uddin was awarded "British Academy Visiting Fellowship 2009" to do postdoctoral level research in the University of Hull, UK. As British Academy Fellow, Dr. Uddin did part of his research in many leading Universities and institution in the UK including Cambridge University, SOAS, University College London (UCL), Manchester University, Oxford University, Durham University, British library, UK national archive, Center for Anthropology at British Museum and UK parliament archive. Soon after finishing the UK project, Dr. Uddin did advanced research on "The State of Ethnic Minority in the State-formation in Post-colonial State: Experience from Bangladesh" as an Affiliated Fellow of the Department of Sociology at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi in the first half of 2011. In 2012, Dr.Uddin was awarded Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship to do postdoctoral research in Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. Now, Dr. Uddin is teaching courses in the Faculty of Social Sciences[3] in winter and summer semester, 2012-2013 whilst doing his own research on “the anthropology of the state”. His current field of interests are Ethnicity and the Formation of Ethnic Category in De-territorialized world; Mobility and Transition in Identity and Cultural Entity; Subaltern Studies and the Politics of Marginality; Dialectics between Colonialism and Post-colonialism; Peace and Conflict Studies; Notions of Power and State in Everyday Life; Migration and Refugee Studies; (political) Islam and Secularism, Dynamics of Regionalism and Area Studies; Paradox of Modernity and Globalization; Interface of Local Wisdom and Global Doctrine; the Chittagong Hill Tracts, South Asia. Dr. Uddin has published numerous journal articles[4][5][6][7], edited volumes[8] and written books [9] on the Chittagong Hill Tracts, colonialism and post-colonialism, anthropology of the state, adivasi Issue, Rohingya refugees issues etc.
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