About
Dr. Mohammed Nuruzzaman is Professor of Political Science at North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. After completing graduation in International Relations from the University of Dhaka, he earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Alberta, Canada in 2003 and has served as a faculty at different universities in Canada, Bangladesh and Kuwait. In his long-checkered teaching and research career spanning a period over 20 years, Dr. Nuruzzaman has taught at the University of Alberta, Okanagan University College, British Columbia, Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST), and University of Dhaka before joining North South University in September 2021. He also served as the founding Director of the Center for Global Studies (later renamed Global Studies Center) at GUST from January 2012 to December 2013.
Dr. Nuruzzaman specializes in international relations theory, global political economy, human rights and human security, great powers in the global order, political Islam, and politics and international relations of the Middle East and South Asia. His major publications have appeared in leading peer-reviewed international journals, including Global Studies Quarterly, The Washington Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Political Science, International Journal: Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis, International Studies Perspectives, Cooperation and Conflict, International Area Studies Review, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, among other scholarly publication outlets. He is the winner of some prestigious scholarships and fellowships, including Durham Senior International Research Fellowship 2016 –17 (Durham University, UK), KFAS (Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences) research grants in 2013, the F.S. Chia Doctoral Scholarship (University of Alberta) in 1998 for a period of four years, and the GUST–UMSL (University of Missouri, Saint Louis) Summer Research Fellowship in 2011.
Currently, Prof. Nuruzzaman is serving as Managing Editor of two academic journals – Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, and North South Journal of Peace and Global Studies. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of Research Center for Asian Studies (RCAS), Hainan, China.