Mubashar HasanMubashar Hasan is presently a research fellow at the Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo, Norway. In Bangladesh, he holds the position of an Assistant Professor at the Department of Politicl Science and Sociology, North South University, Bangladesh. 

In 2018, he was awarded an Emerging Early Career Research Award, 11th Global Studies Conference in University of Granada, Spain, by the Unites States-based Common Ground Research Network. He was previously a Bangladesh research fellow at the RESOLVE Network at the United States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC, and a shortterm visiting fellow at the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies and Institute for South Asian Studies, UC Berkeley (2016).

He has a PhD from Griffith University, Australia, an MLitt in Muslims globalization and the West from the University of Aberdeen, UK, and an Msc in globalization—origin, development and contemporary impact from the University of Dundee, UK. His research on religion, politics and violence were published in leading journals such as Australian Journal of Politics and History, Asian Journal of Political Science, Harvard Asia Quarterly, India Quarterly and South Asia Research. He has published a chapter in the book titled Being Muslims in South Asia.

His brief think pieces were published in Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, The Quint, Scroll.in, The Conversation, The Wire, Asian Correspondent, Firstpost and so forth.  He is currently writing his book Islam and Politics in Bangladesh.  Read More Read Less