Md. Maidul Islam

Md. Maidul Islam is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, currently on study leave while pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on Social Movements, Historical Sociology, Colonial Studies, Post-modernism, Prison Studies, and Sociology of Ethnicity and Minority. He has extensive teaching experience across multiple universities in Bangladesh and holds degrees from the University of Chittagong and Delhi School of Economics. His work critiques colonial legacies and authoritarian governance in Bangladesh.

Education: BSS Sociology (2003-2006), MSS Sociology (2006-2007), M.Phil. from Delhi School of Economics (2014-2015). Awards include the ICCR Scholarship for M.Phil. and full funding for his Pittsburgh Ph.D. program.

• Research Interests: Colonialism's impact, prison systems, secularism debates, political Islam, microfinance, family dynamics in late modernity.
• Publications: Focus on secularism, microfinance, and socio-political movements in Bangladesh and South Asia.

He advocates for human rights and academic freedom, blending activism with scholarship. His recent work explores how colonial epistemologies perpetuate authoritarianism in Bangladesh.