PROFILE

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Mirza Taslima Born in 1970, was brought up and finished primary, secondary and higher secondary school education in Dhaka. She Obtained BSS and MSS from Jahangirnagar University in Anthropology in 1990 and 1991. Later she did a MA in Comparative study in Women and Politics in 2004 from Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Finally Taslima achieved a PhD from Lancaster University, UK in 2014 in Gender and Women Studies. The research was on Childlessness in Bangladesh in the context of the advent of In vitro Fertilisation in the country. She has been teaching in the Department of Anthropology in Jahangirnagar University since 1997. Previously she worked in the dept of Anthropology in the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology from 1995 to 1997 as a pioneer teacher. Besides academic activities, Taslima has been engaged in activism to challange all kinds of opressions especially focusing on gender inequality. Also, she is a member of a group Public Nribiggayan, which publishes book series and she has been a member of the joint editorial team.  

RESEARCH INTEREST

Gender, Health and technology, Culture and Media.

• CONTACT