Center of Excellence in Higher Education
The First Private University in Bangladesh

Md. Abdus Sabur Sajal

Full-Time Faculty
Assistant Professor

Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, USA

Phone: +880-2-55668200 Ext:
Email: md.sabur@northsouth.edu
Office:

 

 

2024    Sabur, Md. Abdus “Working-class Masculinity and Status Maneuvering: Relational Construction of Migrants’ Masculinity” Men and Masculinity. Volume 27 Issue 2, June 2024

2022    Sabur, Md. Abdus “Gender, Veiling, and Class: Symbolic Boundaries and Veiling in Bengali Muslim Families.” Gender & Society 36 (3): 397–421

            2023 Honorable Mention:  American Sociological Association Sociology of    

            Religion  Section Student Paper Award

2009     Hassan Mahmud, Md. Abdus Sabur and Sharmin Tamanna “International Migration, Remittances, and Development.” Journal of Sustainable Development Vol. 2, No.1. 147-155.

2008   Sabur, Md. Abdus and Hassan, Mahmud. “Political Impacts of Remittances: A Micro-level Study of Migrants’ Remittances in a Village in Bangladesh.” Journal of Asian Social Science, Vol.4 No.12. 128-134.

2008    Hassan Mahmud, Mahammad Mahbub Quaisar, Md. Abdus Sabur “Human Security or National Security: The Problems and Prospects of the Norm of Human Security.” Journal of Politics and Law, Vol.1 No.4. 67-72.

 

Book Chapters

2021    Sabur, Md Abdus. “Bengali Middle Class: Conservatism and Classificatory Politics” in Sayeed, Ranjana; Ahmed, Shakil; and Mahmuzzaman (Edit) Dreams of Bangladesh at the Age of Fifty: Shaily Publications, Dhaka) (In Bangla).

2021    Bhuiyan, Mahmudur Rahman and Sabur, Md Abdus. “Life of Teenage Girls in Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh: Equation of Hope and Fears” in Siddiki, Bulbul and Sultana, Ishrat Zakia (edit) Rohingya Refugee Life: Uncertain Future and Civilization Responsibility: Prothoma Publications, Dhaka. (In Bangla).

 

In Progress

2025   Sabur, Md. Abdus. Migration, Gender, and Class: Religious Practices and Extra-religious Ends.

2025    Sabur, Md. Abdus. Labor Market, Wage Earnings, and Racial Encounters: The Rise of Religiosity among Migrant Workers.

Research and Travel Grants:

2024    Gallagher Grant Association for Sociology of Religion: Annual Meeting Travel Grant

2024    UMass Amherst Sociology: Summer Travel Grant

2023    ASA Sociology of Religion Section Student Travel Grant

2023    UMass Amherst Sociology: Summer Travel Grant

2017    Conference Scholarship by Asia Pacific Week, Australian National University

2016    University Research Grant for Faculty Members, North South University, Bangladesh

2014     Summer Research Grant for Comprehensive Examination, Dept. of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.

2024                Ph.D. in Sociology University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

2015                Master of Arts: Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

2005                Master of Social Sciences: Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh 

2004                Bachelor of Social Sciences: Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

UMass Amherst, USA

 

Instructor:                  

Foundations of Sociological Theories—Summer 2021, 2024 (Online)

Social Class and Inequality–Spring 2024

SBS First Year Seminar – Fall 2023

Introduction to Sociology – Fall 2023, Winter 2022 (Online), Fall 2013 

Drugs and Society – Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021

Conformity and Deviance – Fall 2022 (Online)

Social Problems – Spring 2021 (Online)

Political Sociology – Spring 2020

Work and Society – Fall 2014

           

Graduate Teaching Assistant:            

Social Problems – Fall 2020

Data Collection and Analysis – Spring 2014, Fall 2019

Foundations of Sociological Theory – Spring 2013

Race, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity – Spring 2012, Fall 2012

Self and Society – Fall 2011

 

North South University, Bangladesh (Summer 2016- Summer 2019)

 

Instructor:                   Introduction to Sociology

                                    Gender and Development

                                    Contemporary Issues in Gender Relationships

 

MIST, Bangladesh (Spring 2007-Spring 2011)

 

Instructor:                   Introduction to Sociology

                                    Sociology of Architecture and Housing

                                    Elementary Statistics

                                    Economy and Society

                                    Politics and Governance in Bangladesh

 

Khulna University, Bangladesh (Spring 2006- Fall 2006)

 

Instructor:                   Introduction to Sociology

                                      Rural Sociology

 

Introduction to Sociology

Data Collection and Analysis

Economy and Society

Work and Society 

Industrial Sociology

Sociology of Science and Technology

Society, Technology and Engineering Ethics

Politics and Government in Bangladesh

Contemporary Society and Economy of Bangladesh

 Rural Sociology

Sociology of Architecture and Housing 

 

American Sociological Association

Sociologists for Women in Society

Association for the Sociology of Religion

Gender Studies, Working-class Masculinity, Labor Migration, Sociology of Religion, and Global Sociology.