I am a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Oklahoma State University. I earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a master’s degree in sociology at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. Broadly, the area of my expertise includes environmental sociology, social inequality, and quantitative methods. I study the political economy of global environmental change, environmental racism, disaster, food security, and public health. To date, I have published 5 journal articles and a book chapter that is forthcoming. My work has been published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Sustainability, Geocarto International, and Journal of Affective Disorders.

Currently, I have three distinct but interrelated research agendas. First, my research examines the ways in which political-economic dynamics at the global and regional scale affect various forms of environmental sustainability and human well-being including but not limited to water resources, biodiversity, ecological footprint, climate change, food security, and public health. Second, I investigate how coastal communities in Bangladesh, especially vulnerable social groups, disproportionately shoulder the socio-economic and health burdens of climate change and natural hazards. Third, I study sustainability and environmental justice, focusing on health disparities in the United States. For each of these projects, I work with a different set of collaborators including environmental sociologists, geographers, epidemiologists, political scientists, and so on. Currently, I am working on several research papers and will continue to address research questions associated with these broader agendas.

In my research, I employ, depending on the specific data structure, a wide array of quantitative techniques including multivariate regressions, categorical data analysis, longitudinal data analysis, multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, and spatial statistics. Not only do I utilize quantitative techniques, but also I conduct research on statistical methods, particularly how to develop empirical tests and theoretical justification so that social science researchers can follow scientifically-informed general guidelines for data-generating process and model selection as opposed to arbitrary decisions. Apart from my interests in empirical research, I am passionate about history and social theory and examine the ways in which the progressive reading of history as well as the universalist and humanist assumptions implicit in social theory, in general, limits our understanding and obfuscates our future about the emancipation of human and non-human nature in modern society.

I live with my wife in the United States. My parents and only younger brother are living in Bangladesh where I came from. In my free time, I like to walk, read books, do gardening, chat with friends, play cricket and soccer, and spend time in nature.