Biography

Miami University Oxford - Women's Studies

Assoc. Prof. Sociology and Women's Studies at Miami University Ohio
Research
Fauzia
Ahmed
Oxford, Ohio
My qualifications lie in a combination of professional development and academic experience. My teaching, research, and service activities reflect the exploration of two broad questions: 1) How does globalization impact the nexus of race, gender, and class in terms of personal identity, social life, and societal change? and 2) How can the moral society exist in the globalized economy? I have worked with community organizations with African-American populations in the United States and with villagers in Bangladesh. In the policy arena, I have worked with the United Nations in Bangladesh, Thailand, and Indonesia. Based on my research project on masculinity and microcredit, I was invited to be a Visiting Scientist with the Women and Health Initiative (WHI), Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard. Subsequently, the South Asia Institute (SAI) at Harvard University invited me to be a Research Affiliate for 2014-2015 based on my research project on globalization, gender, and the garment industry. My project, “Progressive Muslim Masculinity in the International Order,” earned me Miami University’s nomination for the Carnegie Foundation Fellowship. A literary imagination is essential to the development of global citizenship; I, therefore, include novels in all my classes, enabling students to develop a renaissance perspective. I am currently teaching a virtual graduate seminar on microcredit, gender, and Islam to graduate students in Miami and Turkey. I have provided solutions-oriented community service at the global level to three organizations in Bangladesh, which includes the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, the largest NonGovernment Organization in the world today.