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Full Time Faculty 
Assistant Professor

Ph.D. in Environmental Social Science, Arizona State University, USA
M.A. in Environmental Social Science, Arizona State University, USA
M.Sc. in Water Resources Development, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)

Phone: 55 668 200 Ext. :  6223 
Email: [email protected]
Office: SAC 714

Curriculum Vitae

About

Dr. Mohammad Jobayer Hossain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Management at North South University (NSU) and an Adjunct Faculty member in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (SHESC) at Arizona State University (ASU). He is an environmental social scientist whose research focuses on water insecurity, climate resilience, environmental justice, and community-based resource governance. He earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Social Science from ASU, where he also served as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar. 

Dr. Hossain's research integrates environmental social science, mixed-methods research, GIS, and participatory approaches to examine water security, climate resilience, and environmental governance in resource-constrained and disaster-prone communities. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Environmental Science & Policy, Minerva, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, Water Security, Field Methods, Global Public Health, Natural Hazards, and Environment, Development and Sustainability, advancing scholarship on water governance, environmental sustainability, and social equity. 

Prior to joining NSU, Dr. Hossain served as Lab Manager of the Culture, Health, Environment, and Language (CHELab) at ASU and contributed to interdisciplinary research through the Arizona Water for All initiative, Action for Water Equity, and the University of Oxford-led REACH Water program. His research has been recognized with several honors, including the Bob Bolin Award for Excellence in Research and the University Outstanding Graduate in Social Sciences at Arizona State University. Beyond research, he has demonstrated a strong commitment to academic and community leadership, serving as President of the Bangladesh Student Association at ASU. He also currently serves as the Bangladesh Site Lead for the Global Ethnohydrology Study, an international collaborative research initiative advancing comparative research on water governance, climate resilience, and community-based resource management. He is an active member of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS).

Selected Publications

2026

17                          Castro-Diaz, L., Wutich, A., Peek, L., Adams, R., Lopez, M., Moran, E., Ogechi, V., Harper, K., Action for Water Equity Consortium, Amazon Energy Consortium, ELEVATE Consortium, CONVERGE Consortium.  Participatory Convergence: Four Cases for Conducting Convergent Research Using Community-Based Approaches.  Environmental Science & Policy, Accepted. May 6, 2026. 

 

16                          Thomson, P., Beresford, M., Hossain, J., Jacob, C., Jordão, C., Medina-Ramírez, O., Neems, S., Salcedo Serrano, D., White, D., & Wutich, A., Arizona Water for All Consortium (2026). Addressing Failing Water Systems: A Qualitative Protocol for Intervention Research on Water Insecurity. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 25, 16094069261432752 https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069261432752

2025

15                          Hossain, M.J., Siddiquee, N., Choudhary, N., SturtzSreetharan, C., Trainer, S., Wutich, A., Brewis, A. (2025). Buffering in the intra-household allocation of scarce water in urban Dhaka, Bangladesh. Annals of Human Biology. 52(1), 2537214. https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2025.2537214

14                          Hasan, M. H., Hossain, M.J., Nipa, S.A. (2025). Navigating Water Discord: A review of water conflicts in the Common Resource. Frontiers in Water, 6, 1405601. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1405601

13                          Lima, M. H., Salehin, M., Chowdhury, M. A., Hasan, M. H., Hossain, M.J., Bala, S.K. (2025). From participation to empowerment: the case of women in community-based water management in hydrologically diverse southwest coastal Bangladesh. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-025-05994-y

12                          Wutich, A., Brewis, A., Thomson, p., Beresford, M., White, D., Arizona Water for All Consortium. (2025). Ethical Challenges of Managing Retreat from Centralized Water Systems. Human Organization, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/00187259.2025.2499679

2024     

11                          Castro-Diaz, L., Roque, A., Wutich, A., Landes, L., Li, W., Larson, R., Westerhoff, P., Hernández, M., Hossain, M.J., Tsai, Y., Ramón, L., Griffin, T., White, D., Hanemann, M., Action for Water Equity Consortia (2024). Participatory Convergence: A Process Framework for Action Research. Minerva, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-024-09547-x

10                          Jerin, T., Chowdhury, M. A., Azad, M. A. K., Zaman, S., Mahmood, S., Islam, S. L. U., Hossain, M.J. (2024). Extreme weather events (EWEs)-Related health complications in Bangladesh: A gender-based analysis on the 2017 catastrophic floods. Natural Hazards Research, 4(3), 434-447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nhres.2023.10.006

9                            Beresford, M., Brewis, A., Choudhary, N., Drew, G., Garcia, N., Garrick, D., Hossain, M.J., Lopez, E., Nébié, E., Pacheco-Vega, R., Roque, A., Wutich, A. (2024). Justice and Moral Economies in Modular, Adaptive, and Decentralized (MAD) Water Systems. Water Security, 21, 100148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2023.100148

8                            Roque, A., Wutich, A., Brewis, A., Beresford, M., Landes, L., Morales, O., Lucero, R., Jepson, W., Tsai, Y., Hanemann, M., Action for Water Equity Consortia (2024). Community-Based Participant-Observation (CBPO): A participatory method for ethnographic research. Field Methods, 36 (1), 80-90. https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X231198989

2023

7                            Choudhary, N., SturtzSreetharan, C., Trainer, S., Brewis, A., Wutich, A., Clancy, K., Hossain, M.J. (2023). Managing menstruation with dignity: Worries, Stress and Mental Health in two water-scarce urban communities in India. Global Public Health, 18(1), 2233996. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2023.2233996

6                            Hasan, M.H., Newton, I.H., Chowdhury, M.A., Esha, A.A., Razzaque, S., Hossain, M. J. (2023). Land Use Land Cover Change and Related Drivers have Livelihood Consequences in Coastal Bangladesh. Earth Systems and Environment, 7(2), 541-559. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-023-00339-z

2022

5                            Hossain, M. J., Islam, M. A., Rahaman, M. H., Chowdhury, M. A., Islam, M. A., & Rahman, M. M.  (2022). Drinking water services in the primary schools: evidence from coastal areas in Bangladesh. Heliyon, 8(6), e09786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09786

4                            Chowdhury, M., Zzaman, R. U., Tarin, N. J., & Hossain, M. J. (2022). Spatial variability of climatic hazards in Bangladesh. Natural Hazards, 110(3), 2329-2351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-05039-3

3                            Wutich, A., Jepson, W., Carmen, V., Roque, A., Gu, Z., Hanemann, M., Hossain, M. J., Landes, L., Larson, R., Li, W., Morales, O., Patwoary, N., Tsai, Y., Porter, S., Zheng, M., Westerhoff, P. (2022). Water insecurity in the Global North: A review of experiences in US colonias communities along the Mexico border. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 9(4), e1595. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1595

2                            Roque, A., Wutich, A., Quimby, B., Porter, S., Zheng, M., Hossain, M. J., & Brewis, A. (2022). Participatory approaches in water research: A review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 9(2), e1577. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1577

2021

1                            Hossain, M. J., Chowdhury, M., Jahan, S., Zzaman, R. U., & Islam, S. L. U. (2021). Drinking Water Insecurity in Southwest Coastal Bangladesh: How Far to SDG 6.1?. Water, 13(24), 3571. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243571

 

Book Chapters

2020

1             Hasan, M. H., Hossain, M. J., Chowdhury, M. A., & Billah, M. (2020) Salinity intrusion in southwest coastal Bangladesh: an insight from land use change. In Water, Flood Management and Water Security Under a Changing Climate (pp. 125-140). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47786-8_8

Awards & Honors

2026                     Crescordia Award for Ensuring Water for the Future of Arizona, Arizona Forward Environmental Excellence Awards

2025                     University Outstanding Graduate in Social Sciences for Academic Excellence, Leadership, and Community Service, Arizona State University

2024                     Bob Bolin Award for Excellence in Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University

                              2nd Place in Poster Competition, Institute for Social Science Research, Arizona State University

2023                     1st Place in Poster Competition, Urban Climate Research Center, Arizona State University

                              3rd Place in Poster Competition, Institute for Social Science Research, Arizona State University

2020                     Best Group in Hackathon, Joint Corporation Program Bangladesh-The Netherlands, Dhaka

Educational Qualifications

Ph.D. in Environmental Social Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
M.A. in Environmental Social Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
M.Sc. in Water Resources Development, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
B.Sc. Environmental Science, Jessore University of Science and Technology, Jessore, Bangladesh.

Academic Experience

2025 – 2026         Postdoctoral Researcher

Arizona Water for All – Arizona Water Innovation Initiative,

Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2022 – 2025         Lab manager

Culture, Health, Environment, and Language Lab (CHELab),

School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2021 – 2022         Research Associate

NSF Action for Water Equity,

School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2018 – 2021         Research Associate

REACH Water Security (led by the University of Oxford),

Institute of Water and Flood Management, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2016 – 2017         Research Assistant

Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Jessore University of Science and Technology, Jessore, Bangladesh

Corporate Experience
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Courses

Undergraduate courses
ENV 203 Introduction to Geography
ENV 205 Climate Change
ENV 410 Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)

Graduate Courses
ENV 649 Climate Change

Membership and professional Activites

American Association of Geographers (AAG)
         Water Resources Specialty Group
         Water Insecurity Experiences (WISE) Community of Practice
Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
New York Academy of Science (NYAS)
Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN)

Research Interests

Water Insecurity, Climate Adaptation and Resilience, Water Governance, Community-based Resource Management