Habibul Haque Khondker, PhD (Pittsburgh), is a professor of Social Sciences at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, and a scholar of globalization studies. He is a Part-time Member (Educationist Nominated by the Government) of the Bangladesh Accreditation Council. Prof. Khondker was the Co-Chair of Research Committee 9 (Social Transformations and Sociology of Development) of the International Sociological Association. Khondker, a Bangladesh-born sociologist, has taught sociology and related fields for over three decades. He has published articles on globalization, glocalization, migration governance, state and secularism, nationalism, and various development issues in such international journals as the Journal of Consumer Culture, International Sociology, International Sociology Review, Protosociology, The British Journal of Sociology, Current Sociology, International Migration, Globalizations, Armed Forces and Society, Asian Journal of Social Sciences, South Asia among others. Khondker received the Outstanding Faculty Award at Zayed University in 2013-14. Khondker, a recipient of the prestigious Andrew Mellon Fellowship as a graduate student, also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Sociology in 2012.

Roles and Responsibilities

Khondker leads the Bengali translation team of Global Dialogue, a publication of the International Sociological Association.

He is also the Editor-in-chief of the South Asian Journal of Social Sciences.

Khondker is on several international journals' editorial and editorial advisory boards, including the Journal of Sociology and the Journal of the Australian Sociological Association.

Member, Board of Directors, Global Development Network

Member, Governing Body, Shiekh Zayed Bangladesh Islamia School, Abu Dhabi

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