Yunas Samad is a British social scientist whose research is at the interface of sociology, politics and history. He is Professor of South Asian Studies and the Director of the Ethnicity and Social Policy Research Centre (ESPRC)[1] at the University of Bradford. He is an expert on the study of South Asia and its diaspora and has published several books on the topic of Pakistani nationalism, ethnicity, Islam and the War on Terror. He regularly comments on the Muslim diaspora, politics and security issues in Pakistan for the BBC,[2] the Dawn[3] and other media outlets.
Background
editHe was born in Lahore and his family migrated to the United Kingdom during his childhood. He was brought up and educated in South Merton, London. He is married and has one son. Prior to being an academic he worked in commerce and left as Managing Director of Samad Carpets, working in various offices across London, Lahore and Karachi.
Education
editHe graduated with a B.A. Hons in History from the University of North London where he was a student of Denis Judd.[4] He was then awarded a British Academy scholarship to study for a DPhil in Modern History at St Antony's College, Oxford University under the supervision of the Indian historian Professor Tapan Raychaudhuri.[5]
Academic career
editHe remained at St Antony's College, on a Wingate Scholarship[6] as Associate Fellow of the Cecil Rhodes Chair of Race Relations and worked with the African historian Professor Terrence Ranger. He taught at AFRAS at Sussex University and then was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations, Warwick University working with the sociologist John Rex. He was appointed as a lecturer at Bradford University in 1994.[7]
Samad's main areas of interest are transnationalism, ethnicity, nationalism, and identity politics in South Asia and Europe. He has conducted a number of funded projects, working for various organisations, such as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Economic Social Research Council, The European Commission and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
He was a member of the Expert Group on Humanities advising the European Commission on its FP 7 Research Programme[8] (2005-6) and is a Trustee of the Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust (2010).[9]
He has played a prominent role in the organisation of a number of learned societies and was Vice-chairman of the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS)[10] (1999–2003), Executive Committee member of the European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS)[11](1997–2003) and was Deputy Director of the South Asia Research Centre, Geneva (2004-8).[12]
Selected publications
edit- Pakistan-US Conundrum: Jihadis, Military and the People – the struggle for control, Hurst & Co, London, 2010.
- Muslim Community Cohesion: Bradford Report, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York, 2010.
- With Gayen Pandey, Faultlines of Nationhood, Roli Press, New Delhi, 2007.
- With Kasturi Sen, Islam in the European Union: Muslim Youth and the War on Terror, Oxford University Press, Karachi, 2007.
- With John Eade, Community Perceptions of Forced Marriage, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2003.
- With T. Ranger, and O. Stuart (eds.) Culture Identity and Politics: Ethnic Minorities in Britain, Avebury, Aldershot, 1996.
- A Nation in Turmoil: Nationalism and Ethnicity in Pakistan 1937-58, Sage, New Delhi, 1995.[13]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Ethnicity and Social Policy Unit - Social Science and Humanities - University of Bradford". www.brad.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 3 September 2003. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Today, 01/10/2010".
- ^ "DAWN - Features; May 27, 2008". 27 May 2008.
- ^ "鍼灸院の針は使い捨てだから衛生面で心配なし！痛みも感じにくい".
- ^ Samad, Yunas (1991). South Asian Muslim politics, 1937-1958. Oxford Research Archive (Thesis). University of Oxford.
- ^ "Welcome to Wingate Scholarships Anniversary Archive". www.wingate.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
- ^ "Staff Profile - SSH - SSIS - University of Bradford". www.brad.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 7 June 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
- ^ "Research and innovation".
- ^ "The Charles Wallace Trusts".
- ^ "British Association for South Asian Studies". www.basas.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
- ^ "EASAS". Archived from the original on March 6, 2010. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
- ^ "CSAS I Centre for South Asian Studies". Archived from the original on April 15, 2009. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
- ^ Gonsalves, Eric (August 11, 1996). "Book Reviews : YUNAS SAMAD, A Nation in Turmoil, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1995, pp. 235, Rs 165". Studies in History. 12 (2): 282–285. doi:10.1177/025764309601200210 – via DOI.org (Crossref).