RUDABEH SHAHID

• Design and teach five introductory, intermediate, and advanced level courses: “Citizenship & Statelessness in Comparative Perspective”, “Comparative Politics of Developing Countries”, “Ethnic Conflicts in Comparative Perspective”, “Identity & Politics of India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan”, and “Politics of South Asia’s Non-Nuclear Five”

• Of courses on Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka for civil and foreign service personnel
• Teach and coordinate sessions on economy, politics, society, culture and gender of four South Asian countries
• Invited regularly to courses on India and Pakistan, to share analysis on statelessness and minority issues in South Asia, Thesis Committee Member for a student at the New College of Florida working on a project analyzing the legal status of protracted refugees in four developing countries (April 2022)
• Thesis Advisor of a student at Oberlin College working on a project analyzing ethnic identity in Afghanistan

• Advise on research and activities related to foreign policy and international relations of the South Asian region

• Fellowship focuses on conflict, geopolitics, migration, and refugee issues of Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar
• Discuss with the Director of the South Asia Center, about upcoming projects and activities

• Fellowship part of the Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges
• Designed and taught courses: “Politics of South Asia” and “Citizenship & Statelessness in Comparative Perspective”

 Fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust for the “Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique” project

 Worked on a scheme of the project which considered Civil Society in Post-Colonial India and wider South Asia

• Of two undergraduate students at the University of York working on projects related to politics of South Asia, )
• India Country Expert, Ethics Advisory Board of the “Elections, Violence, and Parties” Project at the

• Fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust for the “Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique” project
• Worked on a scheme of the project which considered Civil Society in Post-Colonial India and wider South Asia
• Department of Political, / Sociology-Anthropology, Middlebury College, Designed two regular semester-long 12 weeks courses to be taught in 4 weeks
• Course titles: “South Asia Beyond New Delhi–Islamabad” and “Refugee Crises in South Asia”

• Worked on a joint project between the Department of History (Durham University) and the Department of International Development (University of Birmingham) with analyzing survey data from three African countries
• Cleaned large survey datasets, built and analyzed regression models, and provided programming support

• Taught undergraduate seminar for module: “Theory and History in International Relations”
• Structured and moderated four discussion sections, graded formative assessments, and provided feedback to students

• Multi-disciplinary courses designed/ taught across four departments (Architecture, Business Administration, Journalism, and Law): “Bangladesh Studies”, “Bengal Architecture”, “Government and Politics”, “Hindu Law”, “History and Socio-Economic Studies of Bangladesh”, “Islamic Architecture”, and “Muslim Law I”
• Centre for Development Research, Bangladesh (CDRB)
• Religio-Political Discussant in the Media, Researched and presented live on TV with a former Technocrat Minister on themes pertaining to Islamic culture
• Composed articles on Hindu mythology for the annual publication of Bangladesh’s national temple
• Department of History of Art and Architecture, Middlebury College

• Assisted the Chair of the Department with editing her forthcoming book on Hindu Devotional Art titled “The Art of Loving Krishna: Ornamentation and Devotion”, ’í International Community’s United Nations Office (BIC

• Assisted the Principal Representative of the BIC/ President of the UN NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief, with preparing presentations and conducting research on global religious freedom and human rights

• Processed film submissions on Jewish identity and culture for the Nineteenth Annual New York Jewish Film Festival, documented media, and assisted in developing projects for the museum’s digital media library

• Reviewed applications from NGOs which work on addressing healthcare inequality in developing countries