Bangladesh

Jennifer Adair

Curriculum and Instruction

Jennifer Adair's work focuses on the connection between agency and discrimination in the learning experiences of young children and how we can engage young children in authentic learning experiences about race, community and their real lives.

Richard Albert

Government, Law

Richard Albert's research interests are constitutionalism, democracy, and the rule of law, with specific focus on constitutional reform, constitution-making, and comparative constitutionalism.

Kamran Ali

Anthropology, Asian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies

Kamran Ali's research centers on issues of health, gender, and urban issues in Egypt, and on ethnicity, class politics, urban space, cinema, sexuality and popular culture in Pakistan.

Bayani Cardenas

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Bayani Cardenas' research group studies fundamental and applied hydrologic flow and transport phenomena. The group pursues basic knowledge on the role of water in many earth-surface processes, including conventional hydrologic and water quality monitoring, geophysical surveys, remote-sensing, analogue experiments, and mathematical modeling, to design solutions to environmental issues and society's water problems.

Jason Cons

Anthropology

Jason Cons works on borders in South Asia, climate and agrarian change, and rural development. He has conducted research in Bangladesh on a range of issues including: climate security, disputed territory along the border, the impacts of shrimp aquaculture in coastal areas, and the politics of development. He is exploring the ways that imaginations of future climate change are shaping the delta and the India-Bangladesh border in the present.

David Eaton

Public Affairs, Middle Eastern Studies, Integrative Biology, Geography and the Environment, Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, Asian Studies, South Asia Institute, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, Public Health, Institute for Innovation

David Eaton's research focuses on sustainable development in international river basins, evaluation of energy and water conservation programs, and prevention of pollution.

Erin Lentz

Public Affairs

Erin Lentz's research explores food security, the linkage between gender, nutrition, and agriculture, and U.S. food aid and food assistance policies. She also researches innovative approaches to improving early warning for food insecurity crises, with a focus on leveraging real-time data and machine learning techniques. In Bangladesh, she is developing a collaborative, community-based research project exploring the social life of famine.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.

Paola Passalacqua

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Paola Passalacqua's research interests lie at the intersection of water resources engineering, hydrologic sciences, and geomorphology. Her goal is to advance the understanding of how topographic patterns arise, evolve, and interact with climate and ecosystems, in order to improve predictions of the response of the Earth-surface to disturbance and change, to develop sustainable management solutions.

Muhammad T. Rahman

Geography and the Environment

Muhammad T. Rahman’s research interests include human-environmental interactions during and after natural disasters, geographic information science, urban remote sensing, and quantitative methods.

Navid Saleh

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Navid Saleh's research interests include fundamental aggregation and deposition behavior of nanomaterials, nanomaterials for environmental remediation, engineering application of nanomaterials (composite materials, sensors), and engineering education.

Ahmed Shamim

Asian Studies

Ahmed Shamim is working on a description of the syntax of Koda, an endangered Munda language of Bangladesh. His research interests included endangered language documentation and description, phonology, morphology, grammar, and language policies and ideologies.

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