BOOKS

Rahman, H. (2024). Decoding Ad Culture: Television Commercials and Broadcast Regulations in Bangladesh. Lexington, Maryland, USA.

Rahman, H. (2019). Consuming Cultural Hegemony: Bollywood in Bangladesh. U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Rahman, H., & Quader, S. (2026). A Celebrity’s Resistance against the “Civil” Social Imaginary: The 2021 Pori Moni Saga and Competing Media Discourses in Bangladesh. In A. Taylor and J. McIntyre (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity. U.K. Routledge.

Siddiqi, B., Shakur, P., Yousuf, M. P. H., & Rahman, H. (2024). Understanding social cohesion: Perspectives from the host and Rohingya communities in Bangladesh. In B. S. Mittra & P. Samaddar (Eds.), Displacement and refugee issues in South Asia: Uncovering the contested realities (pp. 71–96), Lexington Books, Maryland, USA.

Rahman, H., & Siddiqi, B. (2023). The role of media and social cohesion between host and the Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar. In A. Sharifi, D. Simangan, & S. Kaneko (Eds.), Integrated approaches to peace and sustainability (pp. 115–135). Singapore: Springer Nature.

Rahman, H. (2021). The Covidization of Television Commercials in Bangladesh. In H. Rahman & Z. Ahmed (Eds.), COVID Diary. Sangbed and SARB Publishing, Dhaka.

Rahman, H. (2013). Indian cinema, Bangladeshi viewers: Reconceptualizing modernity. In Z. Ahmed & H. Rahman (Eds.), Contemporary Bangladesh in Anthropological Perspectives (pp. 79–89). Dhaka: Ranchi Publications.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY

Rahman, H. (Forthcoming 2026). Bollywood. In Barry Sandywell and Martin Hand (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Culture. U.K. Bloomsbury.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Rahman, H., Koirala, S., Wohab, A., & Khan, N. N. (2026). Migration dreams and lived realities: A comparative analysis among tertiary students in Bangladesh and Nepal. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 8, Article 1820900. https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2026.1820900

Rahman, H., Mohammad, S., & Swarna, S. T. (2024). Voices in peril: understanding English public speaking anxiety among university students in Bangladesh. Cogent Education, 11(1), 235381.  https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2024.2355381

Rahman, H., & Shehab, S. (2023). Media representations of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the formation of public opinion in Bangladesh. The Journal of International Communication, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13216597.2023.2225169

Rahman, H., Weiwei, Z., Siddiqi, B., Jianbin, G., & Zafar, T. (2023). Understanding Xenophobia in Bangladesh: Social Media Representation of China with Regard to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Early 2020. North South Journal of Peace and Global Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 57-86. https://nsjpgs.com/documents/04.%20Harisur%20Rahman%20et%20al.%20.pdf

Rahman, H. (2020). Bollywood is Bangladeshi! Hindi film and the formation of a middle-class audience. Asian Ethnography, 79(2), 279–300. https://asianethnology.org/articles/2298

Rahman, H. (2017). Bollywoodization or ghettoization? The Bangladeshi dream factory is in disarray. Studies in South Asian Film & Media, 8(2), 109–123. https://doi.org/10.1386/safm.8.2.109_1

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2025: “Elevating Learning or Eroding Integrity? Generative AI and the Future of Academic Communication in Bangladesh.” Presented at the National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention, Denver, USA.

2025: “From Melody to Movement: Music as a Tool of Resistance in Bangladesh’s 2024 Uprising.” Panel Paper Presented at the National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention, Denver, USA.

2025: “AI, Ethics, and Sustainability in Media Education: The Role of Generative AI in Reshaping University Learning in Bangladesh.” IAMCR 2025 Conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

2024: “Bridging Dreams and Realities: A Comparative Analysis of Tertiary Level Student Migration from Bangladesh and Nepal to the Global North.” Presented at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Conference, Tampa, Florida, USA.

2022: “Mindless Propaganda or Thoughtful Persuasion? The Convergence of Television Commercials and Popular Culture.” Presented at the Conference on State and Society in Asia: Past and Present, organized by the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA.

2019: “The Portrayal of Rohingya Crisis in Chinese and Indian Online Newspapers’ Headlines: A Critical Discourse and Rhetorical Analysis.” Presented at the International Conference on Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh: Challenges and Sustainable Solutions, North South University, Bangladesh.

2018: “From Partition to Hegemony: Bangladesh and Bangladeshi Films in the South Asian Context.” Presented at the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies and Institute for South Asian Studies Conference, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

2015: “The Construction of the Film Audience in Bangladesh.” Presented at the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand (FHAANZ) Conference, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

2014: “The Ghettoization of Bangladeshi Cinema and the Changing Viewership in Urban Slums.” Presented at the First International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities, Independent University, Bangladesh.

Fulbright Visiting Scholar (2025-2026)

Ph.D. in Anthropology (Mostly Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies); The University of Auckland, New Zealand (2012-2016)

Fulbright Visiting Scholar, School of Media Arts, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU), Illinois, USA (2025–2026)

Regional Master's in Journalism, Media, and Communication, University of Dhaka (2008-2010)

Teaching:

• About ten years of university-level education and research experience
• Passionate about academic teaching and research
• Engaging personality & classroom management style
• Commitment to inclusive and up-to-date instructional methods
• Effective communicator and attentive listener

 Research:

• Over three years of NGO and private-sector settings research experience
• Designed ethnographic and qualitative research methods
• Prepared data collection, training, monitoring, and intervention tools
• Analyzed qualitative and ethnographic data with software such as ATLAS.ti

Two years of advertising research experience at Asiatic360 (2006-2008)

Critical Perspectives in Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations • Theories of Journalism, Media, and Communication • Development Journalism • Gender and Communication • Commentary on Health and Population Journalism • Photography and Visual Communication • Comparative Media Scene of South Asian Countries • Online Journalism and Multimedia Production • Film Sense and Criticism • Photojournalism • Project Work and Documentary Making • Television and New Media • Environment and Mass Communications • Introduction to Anthropology• Introduction to Sociology • Introduction to Media and Communication • Media and Communication Research Methods. Conflict Management and Resolution • Strategic Public Relations • Critical Thinking and Logic • Research Methods and Cultural Analysis, Music and Culture in Bollywood • Rhythm, Blues, and Rock: Issues in Culture and Commerce.

MEMBERSHIP

• Editorial Board Member of Review of Communication Research
   
• Editorial Board Member of Studies in Media and Communication 
   
• Co-founder & Deputy Director, Center for South Asian Media and Culture (CSAMC)
   
• Co-founder & Advisor, Global South Initiative for Media and AI Literacy (GSIMAL)
   
• Founding Member China-South Asia Center for Socio-Cultural Studies (CSCSS)
   
• Founding Member, Center for Peace Studies (CPS, NSU)
   
• Founding Member, Center for Migration Studies (CMS, NSU)

AI Governance; Higher Education; Educational Technology; Digital Media and Democratic Communication; Platform Capitalism and Datafication; Media Systems and Public Policy; Higher Education Reform and AI-Integrated Curriculum Development; South Asian Media and Global Information Flows