Full Name: Professor Dr. Syed Anwar Hussain

Affiliation: Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP)

Current Position: Bangabandhu Professor

Date of Birth: November 05, 1947

Place of Birth: Bangladesh

Home District: Bogra

Nationality: Bangladeshi

Profile:

Syed Anwar Hussain (born 05 November 1947) is a Bangladeshi historian, academic and former director general of the Bangla Academy. He was the former Vice Chancellor of Darul Ihsan University and the founding editor of the Daily Sun. In 2019, the Bangla Academy awarded him an honorary fellowship for his special contribution in education and research. He is supernumerary teacher in the Department of History and former department chairman at the University of Dhaka and the President of Bangladesh Itihas Samiti. He has been serving as Bangabandhu Chair Professor in BUP since March 1, 2016.

Hussain Syed Anwar was born in Bogra. He graduated first in the first class from the Department of History, Dhaka University and obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees. He later earned a MA in International History from the University of Edinburgh on a Commonwealth Scholarship and a PhD in British Administrative History from the University of London. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of California from 1987 to 1988.

Hussain joined the University of Dhaka in 1970 as a Lecturer in the Department of History. He was promoted to professor in 1985. From 1993 to 1996, he served as the chairperson of the Department of History at the University of Dhaka. He was the Director General of Bangla Academy from 1997 to 2001.

From 2004 to 2005, Hussain worked as the Vice-Chancellor of Darul Ihsan University. He was a visiting professor at the American University, Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania. He retired from the University of Dhaka in 2014 and was appointed the Supernumerary Professor there. He was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 2009.

Hussain is widely published on issues of historiography, politics, security, ethnicity, religion, and foreign policy in Bangladesh and South Asia. He is involved with many research and professional associations, including the Bangladesh Association of American Studies, Bangladesh Society of International Studies, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh and the Centre for Development Research Bangladesh. Hussain was a former scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation’s study and conference centre in Belagio, Italy.

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