CAPSTRANS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Dr Santi Rozario

Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Newcastle.

Seconded 2005-7 to Cardiff University, UK, as Senior Research Fellow on ESRC-funded project, "Genetics, religion and identity: a study of Bangladeshi Muslims in Britain".

Qualifications

BA (Honours II) Sociology, Dhaka University (1975). 

MA Qualifying (Honours I) School of Sociology, University of New South Wales (1981).

PhD, School of Sociology, University of New South Wales (1989).

Research Programs

Australia in the Asia Pacific

Culture and Representation

Research Specialisation

I studied in Bangladesh, completing my first degree at Dhaka University. After moving to Australia, I completed my PhD at the University of New South Wales in 1989. I have taught at the University of Newcastle since 1989 (including two years at HIHE before amalgamation). My research interests include women, development and communal relations (Bangladesh and South Asia); women and health, especially childbirth (Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Australia); gender analysis of NGO activities, microcredit and development (Bangladesh); gender issues in Islamic societies and among Muslims in Western societies; migration and identity; education and development (Bangladesh); Islam, genetics and identity (UK Bangladeshis). I have carried out thirteen field research trips to Bangladesh and South Asia between 1982-2004. Consultancy work has included three DFID consultancies in Bangladesh, 2000-2001; work for CARE Bangladesh, 2004; legal consultancies in Australia, etc.

Languages

Bengali (fluent)

Hindi (some)

Maithili and Nepali (a little)

Current Research Projects

Muslims and Christians: Women, Religious Nationalism and Sustainability in the Asia Pacific Region (with Geoffrey Samuel and Hilary Carey)

Bangladeshi Muslim Women and the Islamic Revival

The Challenge of Islam: Young Bangladeshis, Marriage and Family in Bangladesh and the UK (with Geoffrey Samuel and Hilary Carey)

Genetics, Religion and Identity: A Study of Bangladeshi Muslims in Britain (with Sophie Gilliat-Ray)

Recent Publications

(2007) ‘“Indian Medicine,” Drib and the Politics of Identity in a North Indian Tibetan Refugee Settlement’ Journal of Social Studies (Dhaka), vol.113, pp.1-22.

(2007) 'Growing up and Living with Neurofibromatosis1 (NF1): A British Bangladeshi Case Study,' Journal of Genetic Counselling, vol 16, no.5, pp.551-559.

(2007) ‘Outside the Moral Economy? Single Bangladeshi Female Migrants,’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology vol. 18, no.2, pp.154-171.

(2006) Special issue on ‘Islam, Gender and Human Rights,’ joint-edited with Anne-Marie Hilsdon, Women’s Studies International Forum, vol 29, no.4.

(2006) The new burqa in Bangladesh: Empowerment or violation of women's rights? Special Edition:  Islam, Gender and Human Rights, Women’s Studies International Forum, Volume 29, Number 4, July-August 2006, 368-380.

(2006) with Anne-Marie Hilsdon, ‘Introduction: Special Issue on Islam, Gender and Human Rights.’ Women’s Studies International Forum, vol.29 no.4, pp.331-338.

(2005) ‘Genetics, Religion and Identity among British Bangladeshis: Some Initial Findings.’ Diversity in Health and Social Care 2(3) (September 2005), pp.187-196.

(2005) ‘Singular Predicaments: Unmarried Female Migrants and the Changing Bangladeshi Family.’ In Transnational Migration and the Politics of Identity, Meenakshi Thapan (ed.). Delhi: Sage Publications.

(2005) ‘Recent Health Reforms in Bangladesh: Will the Community Clinics Work?’ In Women, Health and Poverty in Bangladesh, ed. by Kazi Hossain and Ehsan Habib. DFID and British Council, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp.31-56.

(2003) with Robyn Iredale, Fei Guo and John Gow, ‘Conclusion.’ In Return Migration In The Asia Pacific (see above), pp.181-189.

(2003) Return Migration In the Asia Pacific, edited jointly with Robyn Iredale and Fei Guo.Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

(2003) with John Gow, ‘Bangladesh: Return Migration and Social Transformation’ in Return Migration In The Asia Pacific (see above), pp.47-87.

(2003) with Robyn Iredale and Fei Guo, ‘Introduction.’ In Return Migration In The Asia Pacific (see above), pp.1-25.

(2002) ‘Gender Dimensions of Rural Change.’ In Hands Not Land: How Livelihoods are Changing in Rural Bangladesh, Kazi Ali Toufique and Cate Turton (eds.), pp.121-130. Dhaka: Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies.

(2002) with Geoffrey Samuel, ‘Tibetan and Indian Ideas of Birth Pollution: Similarities and Contrasts’. In The Daughters of Hariti, pp.182-208, see above.

(2002) ‘The Healer on the Margins: The Dai in Rural Bangladesh.’ In The Daughters of Hariti, pp.130-146, see above.

(2002) ‘Poor and “Dark,” What is My Future?: Identity Construction and Adolescent Women in Bangladesh.’ In Coming of Age in South and Southeast Asia: Youth, Courtship and Sexuality, Lenore Manderson and Pranee Liamputtong Rice (eds.), pp.42-57. 

(2002) The Daughters of Hariti: Childbirth and Female Healers in South and Southeast Asia, edited jointly with Geoffrey Samuel. London: Routledge.

(2002) ‘Grameen Bank-Style Microcredit: Impact on Dowry and Women’s Solidarity.’ Development Bulletin  57 (Feb. 2002), pp.67-70.

(2001) ‘Women and Poverty: Is Grameen Bank the Answer?’ J. Interdisciplinary Gender Studies vol.6 no.2, pp.60-82.

(2001) ‘Claiming The Campus For Female Students In Bangladesh.’ Women’s Studies International Forum vol.24, no.2. pp.157-166.

(2001) Purity and Communal Boundaries: Women, and Social Change in a Bangladeshi Village Dhaka: University Press Limited. Second edition with new introduction.

Current Research Students

Kim Michele Gray, PhD, “'Bananas, Bastards and Victims'? Hybrid Reflections on Cultural Belonging in Inter Country Adoptee Narratives". Expected submission 2007.

Past Research Students

Catherine Jane Norman, PhD, “Is Biomedical Information Enough? A study of the interaction between Macedonians and their doctors through an examination of Macedonian Migrants' Illness Narratives”. Completed studies May 2006.

Organisational Affiliations

Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies