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AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF BANGLADESH STUDIES
SENIOR AND JUNIOR FELLOWS
1989-2000
 
 
Field of Research and Time Period of Fellowship 
 
 
Name Professor Stanley Anthony Kochanek
Institution The Pennsylvania State University
Research Title "Business and Government in Bangladesh”
Period of Study 11 months (Sept. 1990 - Aug. 1991)

Name Mr. Michael Barry Bowler
Institution Syracuse University
Research Title "Poor Bangladeshi Villagers and Their Participation in a Development Program: AThree Village Study”
Period of Study 15 months (March 1991 - June 1992)

Name Mr. James M. Wilce
Institution University of California at Los Angeles
Research Title "The Patient as Linguistics Agent: Health Complaints in Bangladesh”
Period of Study 8 months (Oct. 1991 - June 1992)

Name Dr. Tony Kevin Stewart
Institution North Carolina University
Research Title "The Legendary World of Satya Pir”
Period of Study 11 months (Jan. 1992 - Dec. 1992)

Name Dr. Munir Quddus
Institution University of Southern Indiana University
Research Title "From Rags to Riches:  A Study of the Amazing Success of Garment Export from Bangladesh”
Period of Study 11 months (Sept. 1992 - Aug. 1993).

Name Mr. Darryl Jon Holman
Institution The Pennsylvania State University
Research Title "Demography of Fetal Loss in Rural Bangladesh”
Period of Study 12 months (Jan. 1993 - Jan. 1994).

Name Dr. Monawar Sultana
Institution Consultant, Development Project, Planning Design and Evaluation, U.S.A.
Research Title "Gender, Poverty, Natural Resource Decline and Sustainable Agricultural Development in Bangladesh”
Period of Study Period of Study - 12 months (March 1993 - March 1994)

Name Dr. Thomas H. Bruening
Institution The Pennsylvania State University
Research Title "The Provision of Agricultural Education in the People’s Republic of Bangladesh: An Assessment”
Period of Study Period of Study - 3 months (Jan. 1994 - March 1994)

Name Mr. Dennis W. Eaton
Institution The Pennsylvania State University
Research Title "The Provision of Agricultural Education in the People’s Republic of Bangladesh: An Assessment”
Period of Study 3 months (Jan. 1994 - March 1994)

Name Ms. Rebecca J. Manring
Institution University of Washington
Research Title "The Biographies of Advaitacarya”
Period of Study 6 months ( Dec. 1993 - June 1994)

Name Dr. Syed Saad Andaleeb
Institution The Pennsylvania State University - Erie
Research Title "A Study of Job Satisfaction, Commitment and Performance of Educational Extension Workers in Bangladesh”
Period of Study 3 months (June 1994 - Aug. 1994)

Name Dr. Abu N.M. Wahid
Institution Tennessee State University
Research Title "Women’s Participation in the Grameen Bank Programs: A Study of Some Unanswered Questions”
Period of Study 3 months (May 1994 - Aug. 1994)

Name Dr. M. Kabir Hassan
Institution University of New Orleans
Research Title "The Privatization of Commercial Banks in Bangladesh”
Period of Study 3 months (May 1994 - Aug. 1994)

Name Dr. Patricia Lyons Johnson
Institution The Pennsylvania State University
Research Title "Preliminary Research on Fertility and Economic Development in Bangladesh”
Period of Study 3 months (Sept. 1994 - Dec. 1994)

Name Mr. Noor M. Kamrul Islam
Institution North Carolina State University
Research Title "Insecurity, Culture and Stagnation in Bangladesh”
Period of Study 8 months (May 1994 - Jan. 1995)

Name Ms. Kanta Bhatia
Institution University of Pennsylvania
Research Title "Bangladesh Libraries: South Asian Collections”
Period of Study 3 months (Dec. 1994 - March 1995)

Name Dr. Sharmin S. Khan
Institution University of California
Research Title "Village Schools in Bangladesh: Caught Between Tradition and Change”
Period of Study 6  months (Dec. 1994 - June 1995)

Name Dr. Mohammad Rashiduzzaman
Institution Rowan College of New Jersey, Glassboro, New Jersey
Research Title "Bangladesh: Natural Disasters, Politics, Society and Development”
Period of Study 4 months (Jan. 1995 - May 1995)

Name Dr. M. Mahmud Khan
Institution Tulane University, New Orleans
Research Title "Health Care Market in Bangladesh”
Period of Study 6 months (June 1995 - Aug. 1995, Second part Jan. 1997 - March 1997)

Name Ms. Pika Ghosh
Institution University of Pennsylvania
Research Title "Bengali Temple Terracottas from mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century: A Cultural Reassessement”
Period of Study 3 months (July 1995 - Sept. 1995)

Name  Dr. M. Wahiduzzaman
Institution Austin Prey State University, Clarksville, Tennessee
Research Title "The State of Public Administration Training in Bangladesh.  An Assessment of the Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Training Programs”
Period of Study 3 months (June 1995 - Sept. 1995)

Name Dr. Nazli Kibria
Institution Boston University
Research Title "Women Garment Workers and Family Change in Bangladesh”
Period of Study 4 months (Jan. 1996 - May 1996)

Name Mr. Michael Emch
Institution Michigan State University
Research Title "Risk Factors for Diarrhoeal Disease in Matlab, Bangladesh:  A Medical Geographic Approach”
Period of Study 12 months (Sept. 1995 - Sept. 1996)

Name Dr. Mazhar Muhammad Islam
Institution Texas A&M International University
Research Title "Trends and Potential of Emerging Stock Market in Bangladesh: An Empirical Investigation”
Period of Study 3 months (May 1996 - Aug. 1996)

Name Dr. Shamsul Huda
Institution University of Xavier
Research Title "Elite Composition and Power Structure of Chittagong”
Period of Study 3 months (May 1996 - Aug. 1996)

Name Dr. Salim Rashid
Institution University of Illinois
Research Title "Macro-Environmental Policies in Bangladesh”
Period of Study 2 months (June 1996 - April 1997)

Name Mr. Ian Jeffrey Barrow
Institution University of Chicago
Research Title "Colonial Mapping in Bengal”
Period of Study 11 months (July 1996 - Dec. 1996)

Name Dr. Amalendu K. Chakraborty
Institution University of Wisconsin
Research Title "Bengal Muslims and the New Madrasah Scheme”
Period of Study 6 months (May 1997 - May 1997, Second part July 1998 - Sept. 1998)

Name Dr. Sarosh Islam Khan
Institution University of Colorado at Denver
Research Title "A Study of Operating and Performance Characteristics of Transit and Para-Transit Services in the Dhaka Metropolitan Area”
Period of Study 3 months (June 1997 - July 1997)

Name Dr. Ben Crow
Institution University of California, Berkeley
Research Title "Exchange Diversification and Trade”
Period of Study 4 months (July 1997 - Aug. 1997, Second part June 1998 - July 1998)

Name Ms. Zebun N. Ahmed
Institution University of Pittsburgh
Research Title "Rural Women’s Perspective of Non Formal Education Experiences :  A Case Study in a Bangladesh Village”
Period of Study 6 months (Aug. 1996 - Nov. 1996, Second part Dec. 1997 - Feb. 1998)

Name Ms. Rebecca M. Brown
Institution University of Minnesota
Research Title "Architecture an Urban Space in Patna:  The Shaping of Colonial City”
Period of Study 6 months (Oct. 1996 - Nov. 1996)

Name Dr. Dina M. Siddiqi
Institution University of Pennsylvania
Research Title "Globalization, Islam and Women: The Rise of the Fatwa in Bangladesh”
Period of Study 3 months (June 1997 - Aug. 1997)

Name Dr. Bimal Kanti Paul
Institution Kansas State University
Research Title "Use of Medical Centers and Trained Birth Attendants (TBA) for Children in Rural Bangladesh”
Period of Study 3 months (June 1997 - Aug. 1997)

Name Dr. M. Kabirul Hasan
Institution University of New Orleans
Research Title "Regional Trade Cooperation Transit and Economic Development in SAARC Countries: The Bangladesh Perspective”
Period of Study 12 months (June 1997 - Aug. 1997, Second part Dec. 1997 - Aug. 1998)

Name Ms. Erin E. O’Donnell
Institution University of Chicago
Research Title "Ritwik Ghatak’s Films:  The Construction and Perpetuation of Popular Memory in Post-Independence Bengal”
Period of Study 6 months (Sept. 1997 - Dec. 1997)

Name Dr. Asif Dowla
Institution St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Research Title "Efficiency of Grameen Bank Branches”
Period of Study 12 months (Aug. 1997 - Aug. 1998)

Name Ms. Kirrin Gill
Institution Harvard School of Public Health, Boston
Research Title "Socioeconomic Status & Reproductive Health Linkages and Pathways of Change”
Period of Study 12 months (Sept. 1997 - Nov. 1997)

Name Ms. Kaari Flagstad
Institution The Pennsylvania State University
Research Title "Changing Gender Roles as a Result of International Migration: A Study of the Roles & Relationships of Bangladeshi Men and Women in Origin and Destination Areas”
Period of Study 5 months (Nov. 1997 - March 1998)

Name Dr. Monica L. Smith
Institution University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Research Title "The Role of Bangladesh in the Emergence of Social Complexity in Southeast Asia in the Early Centuries A.D.”
Period of Study 4 months (Jan. 1998 - May 1998)

Name Dr. Serinity Young
Institution Columbia University
Research Title "Representations of Gender in South Asian Buddism”
Period of Study 12 months (Dec. 1997 - May 1998, Second part 1999)

Name Mr. Riaz Arshad Khan
Institution University of Chicago
Research Title "Trans-National Public and Democratic Practice: Political Implications of Emigration from Bangladesh”
Period of Study 6 months (March 1998 - Aug. 1998, Second part June 1999 - July 1999)

Name Dr. Munir Quddus
Institution University of Southern Indiana
Research Title "Political Economy of Higher Education in Bangladesh”
Period of Study 12 months (July 1998 - Aug. 1998, Second part Jan. 1999 - Feb. 1999)

Name Dr. Mumtaz Ahmed
Institution Hampton University, Virginia
Research Title "Islam, State and Society in Bangladesh”
Period of Study 6 months (June 1998 - Aug. 1998, Second part May 2000 - July 2000)

Name Ms. Sufia Uddin
Institution University of Pennsylvania
Research Title "Islam in Bangladesh: An Examination of Bengali Quran Commentary and Their Normative Influence”
Period of Study 12 months (March 1997 - Nov. 1998)

Name Dr. Patricia Lyons Johnson
Institution The Pennsylvania State University
Research Title "Fertility Change in Bangladesh: Evaluating Explanatory Models”
Period of Study 11 months (Jan. 1998 - Nov. 1998)

Name Dr. M. Mahabub-ul Islam
Institution Saint Francis College, Loretto
Research Title "The Emerging Stock Market in Bangladesh: A New Horizon in Economic Growth”
Period of Study 12  months (May 1998 - May 1999)

Name Ms. Yvette Claire Rosser
Institution University of Texas at Austin
Research Title "The Civic Imperative: Influences on the Curriculum Context of Social Studies in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan”
Period of Study 8 months (Oct. 1998 - June 1999)

Name Dr. Shelley Feldman
Institution Cornell University
Research Title "Making Borders, Construction States: Institutional Practices”
Period of Study 4 months (Feb. 1999 - March 1999)

Name Dr. Peter J. Bertocci
Institution Oakland University
Research Title "The Maijhbhandaari: An Exploratory Study”
Period of Study

4 months (Aug. 1999 - Dec. 1999)


Name Dr. Abu N. M. Wahid
Institution Tennessee State University
Research Title "Determinants of the Rate of Female Participation the Labour Force of Bangladesh: An Emperical Study”
Period of Study

4 months (July 1999 - Aug. 1999, Second part in 2000)


Name Dr. Carol Goldberg Salomon
Institution University Washington
Research Title "Edition and Translation of Selected Songs of Lalan Fakir”
Period of Study

6 months (Dec. 1999 - Feb. 2000)


Name Ms. Lisa Irene Knight
Institution Syracuse University
Research Title "Women of the Baul on Fakir Tradition”
Period of Study

12 months (Aug. 1999 - Aug. 2000)

 
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