About me

Welcome to my website. I am a postdoctoral researcher in Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland. Currently, I am working on a project titled ‘Transformation and transnationalization of state spaces: Geopolitics of borders, mobilities, and planning in the Arctic (SPARCTIC)’ funded by the Eudaimonia Institute, University of Oulu. In this project, I am exploring the way regional changes and transformation processes take place in the Arctic with an emphasis on Arctic Finland and its adjacent regions. 

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Broadly, I study the way man-made ideas of borders and bounded spaces affect human mobility and vice versa.

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I got my Ph.D. in Geography and Environment from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA. I was awarded the prestigious East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship to pursue my doctoral studies. I studied the choice of citizenship, experiences of citizenship and noncitizenship, and state-making processes in the former Bangladesh-India border enclaves in my dissertation research, and was supervised by Professor Reece Jones.

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I have taught face-to-face and online classes both at UH Mānoa and the University of Dhaka as a Lecturer. Along with teaching, I worked as a Grant Development Assistant with the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Focus

•  Borders

• Geopolitics

• People on the move 

• Sovereignty 

• Enclaves 

• South Asia esp. Bangladesh and India

• Arctic Borders

• State

• Territory 

• Qualitative Methods