The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Research Award is currently on hold pending funding.
The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Research Award allows us to bring one or two graduate students, post docs, or early career faculty members each year from accredited institutions in North America and in Europe to share their research on Bangabandhu and/or Bangladesh with the UC Berkeley community. This award has been established with the generous support of the US Bangabandhu Parishad, California.
Deadline for submission is April 1, 2024.
Please submit
- 1-page cover letter
- 2-page (maximum) research proposal
- CV
- One letter of support from either your advisor or your department chair
Applications should be emailed to Program Director, Puneeta Kala, at pkala@berkeley.edu and must arrive by 5 pm on April 1, 2024. Late applications cannot be accepted, so to avoid last-minute problems, we encourage early submission.
Awardees
| 2023 |
Asif Iqbal | Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Oberlin College; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Postcolonial World Literature Award Talk: Counter-Imaginations of Partition in the Bengali Novel |
| 2024 |
Bertie Kibreah | Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, School of Music, University of South Florida Award Talk: Debate on the Dais: Shrine Performance and Discursive Devotion in Bangladesh |