Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
PROFILE
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Jahangirnagar University. He completed his PhD at the Australian National University, where his research examined the intersections of displacement, masculinity, and everyday life among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
Trained in social anthropology, Khalad’s work engages with questions of migration, gender, and the lived experiences of marginality. His doctoral research offers an ethnographically grounded account of how Rohingya men negotiate and reconfigure notions of manhood within the constrained and uncertain conditions of refugee camps. By situating masculinity within broader structures of humanitarian governance and displacement, his work contributes to ongoing debates in the anthropology of gender and forced migration.
Prior to his doctoral studies, Khalad completed a second master’s degree at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His thesis, “Ambiguous Positionalities: Bangladeshi Migrant Men in The Hague,” was awarded distinction and received the Best Research Paper Award. Khalad’s broader research interests include the anthropology of migration, masculinity, humanitarianism, and South Asian societies. His work is particularly attentive to how global processes—such as displacement, development, and governance—are experienced, negotiated, and contested in everyday life.
RESEARCH INTEREST
Men and masculinities, Refugee and Forced Migration, Ethnicity and the question of identity
All Publications
Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad, 2026.Elem and Zimmadari: Masculine moral life in Rohingya refugee camps. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 00, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.70092
Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad, 2024.‘Men. Migration and Masculinities: An intersectional analysis of Bangladeshi migrant men in the Hague’ in Heumann, S. and Najlis, C.A. (eds) Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: Unpacking dominant development and policy discourses and interventions, pp. 209-227. Taylor and Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429439483-14
Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad and Maksuda Khanam, 2020.Between Universalism and Cultural Relativism: Understanding UNCRC as a middle ground approach, The Jahangirnagar Review XLI: 345-354. https://juniv.edu/journal/11212/file
Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad, 2017.Ambiguous positionalities: Bangladeshi migrant men in The Hague. ISS Working Paper Series / General Series, 625: 1-52. https://repub.eur.nl/pub/95705
Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad, 2017.Using Microcredit to Serve the Poorest: Problems and Possibilities. নৃবিজ্ঞান পত্রিকা (Journal of Anthropology), 22: 81-92.
Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad and Maksuda Khanam, 2013.অধিকার ভিত্তিক দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি থেকে পরিবারকেন্দ্রিক দৃষ্টিভঙ্গিঃ শিশুর বাস্তবতা অনুধাবনে উন্নয়ন সংস্থাসমূহের টানাপোড়েন. নৃবিজ্ঞান পত্রিকা (Journal of Anthropology), 18: 83-96.
Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad, 2012.বিজ্ঞান ও বৈশ্বিক জলবায়ু পরিবর্তনের রাজনীতি. নৃবিজ্ঞান পত্রিকা (Journal of Anthropology), 17: 27-44.
Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad, 2010.ছিটমহল ও স্থানকেন্দ্রিক জাতি-রাষ্ট্র ধারণার সংকট. নৃবিজ্ঞান পত্রিকা. 15: 83-96
CONFERENCE PAPER
Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad, Perception of Masculinity among Rohingya Refugees of Bangladesh, Asian Studies Association of Australia Conference 2022 'Social Justice in Pandemic Times, Monash University, Australia., 2022.Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad, Perception of Masculinity among Rohingya Refugees of Bangladesh, MSASG/SASAA State-wide PhD Conference - Emerging themes in South Asian Studies: Confluences and Contradictions, Australia India Institute, Melbourne, Australia, 2021.
Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad, Bangladeshi Migrant Men in the Hague, Annual conference of the British association of south Asian studies (BASAS), Durham University, United KIngdom, 2019.
Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad, Ambiguous Positionalities, Fifth conference on Bengal related studies for students and young scholars, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, 2018.
AWARD
ANU University Research Scholarship (International), The Australian National University, Australia, 2020.ANU HDR Fee Merit Scholarship, The Australian National University, Australia, 2020.
Award of the Best Two Research Papers of the Academic Year 2O15/2O16, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2016.
The Netherlands Fellowship Programme, Government of the Netherlands, 2015.
SEMINAR
State, Society and Citizenship: Conceptualizing and Understanding from Poor Worker Perspective.,Institution: Faculty of Social Science, Jahangirnagar University and University Grant Commission, Bangladesh
Project Title: State, Society and Citizenship: Conceptualizing and Understanding from Poor Worker Perspective.
Duration: June 2010 – July 2011
Position: Research Supervisor
Key Findings: Concept of citizenship developed differently in post colonial country like Bangladesh from Europe. Here people affiliate their identity with society and kin relation so their conception of citizenship also related with that. For garment and tannery worker, citizenship is a concept where they demand their right as a member of society rather than member of a state.
Institution: Faculty of Social Science, Jahangirnagar University and University Grant Commission, Bangladesh
Project Title: State Identity Crisis of Rohingya People: An Anthropological Overview.
Duration: June 2012 – July 2013
Position: Research Supervisor
Key Findings: This research analyze identity crisis of Rohingya people who lived in border between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Key finding was that their crisis of state identity is deeply rooted with state formation on this area. They fight with British army against Japanese and Myanmar revolutionist. For that reason they perceive as an outsider of Myanmar Nationalism.
Institution: Faculty of Social Science, Jahangirnagar University and University Grant Commission, Bangladesh
Project Title: Right base approach versus child centered approach: Tension in Development Agency to Understand Children’s reality.
Duration: July 2011 – June 2012
Position: Research Supervisor
Key Findings: Understanding of childhood is not same around the world. But UNCRC categorize children as a homogenous category and set some policy to give their rights. But these idea of right are based on western perception of child. So when a development worker in Bangladesh try to work with children, face enormous problem. Their project categorize child as an individual human being but country like Bangladesh doesn’t perceive children individually. Here children rights is affiliated with their family and kin group. So it become very difficult for NGO and other development worker to implement child right project. For that reason, local NGO worker develop a method called child centered approach,, which aim to develop family but give priority to children. This research find out that the method called child centered approach is limited only on field work. Because of donor-client relationship NGO tend to write report where child right perceive as an individual human right.
Academic Info
Period: 2020 to 2025
Ph.D in Anthropology
Period: 2015-2016
MA in Development Studies
Period: July 2006 to June 2007
Master Of Social Science in Anthropology
Period: July 2002 to June 2006
Bachelor Of Social Science in Anthropology (With honor’s)
Experience
Position: Research Assistant
Period: 1 Month
Project Title: Study on the Impact of PRIME(Programmed Initiatives for Monga Eradication) Intervention
Responsibilities: Conducting survey and FGD to Monga (Famine) affected area in Northern part of Bangladesh.
Position: Research Assistant
Period: Three Months
Project Title: Columbia University Arsenic Motivation Program
Responsibilities: Conducting survey and FGD to Arsenic affected area in Gopalganj District, Bangladesh.
Supervisors: Mahbubur Rahaman, Chief of Research Cell, NGO Forum, Bangladesh.
Position: Research Assistant
Period: 3 Months
Project Name: Stigma and discrimination index against HIV positive people
Responsibilities: Taking in-depth interview from local people as well as HIV positive people to find out everyday stigma and discrimination on HIV positive people in Bangladesh.
Supervisors: Dr. Sabina Fiaz Rashid, Professor and MPH coordinator, James P Grant School of Public Health and Tony Michael Gomez, Project coordinator, UNAIDS, Bangladesh.
Activity
Position: Editorial Board Member
Period: April 2010 - June 2014
Position: Assistant Proctor
Period: February 2012 - April 2014
Position: Assistant House tutor
Period: August 2014 - July 2015
Contact
Mohammad Ibrahim Khalad
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh.
Cell Phone: 8801791541576
Email: ibrahim@juniv.edu
, mik0009@hotmail.com
