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Short Biography:

Shantanu Majumder is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Dhaka. His research interests include political secularism, democracy deficit, identity politics, state and civil society, local government, elections, disinformation on social media, and religious-rumour violence against minorities. He publishes articles in local and international journals ...

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Degree Name	Group/Major Subject	Board/Institute	Country	Passing Year
Ph.D.	Political Science	ICwS, London University	United Kingdom	2012
Masters	Political Science	SOAS, London University	United Kingdom	2002
Masters	Political Science	University of Dhaka	Bangladesh	1993
Bachelor	Political Science	University of Dhaka	Bangladesh	1992

Title	Organization	Location	From Date	To Date
Lecturer	Jahangirnagar University	Savar	01, Feb 1997	01-12-1997
Professor	University of Dhaka	Dhaka	01, Jan 1997	Currently Working
Lecturer	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)	Dhaka	01, Nov 1996	31-12-1996

Research Interest

Subject	Description	Research Interest (Goal, Target Indicator)
Religious-rumour Violence against Minorities	Social media is used to spread religious rumours against minorities in Bangladesh, which sometimes escalate into violence targeting these groups.
Digital Disinformation	Disinformation in social media - Fake news, Hate speech, Deep Fake, Misinformation, Malinformation; Online disinformation to Bolster Religion and/or ethnicity based singular identity; Imprtant of Digital Hygine; How to Combat Digital Disinformation?
Governance	Local governance; Water governance
Election	Use of money, muscle and religious sentiment in elections; Debates on election-time caretaker government in Bangladesh.
Violent Extremism (VE)	Failure of the secular forces and growth of VE, Preventing violent extremism (PVE) and social cohesion.
Political Secularism	Separation of politics and religion, Soft and Hard secularism, Experiment with secularism in Bangladesh
Democracy	Democracy deficit in Bangladesh, Ray of Hope and Challenges of democracy in South Asia, Liberal Democracy and Neo-liberalism .
Civil Society	Understanding of the differences between traditional civil society and NGO civil society.
Identity politics	The rise of identity politics. How it impacts decision making, minority communities, and election results?

Project/Research Supervision

Level of Study	Title	Supervisor	Co-Supervisor(s)	Name of Student(s)	Area of Research	Current Completion
Ph.D.	Delta-MAR: Hydrogeological, Technical and Governance Prerequisites for Sustainable Water Supply Through MAR Systems in Urbanizing Deltas, applied to Bangladesh.	Frank van Laerhoven, Utrecht University, The Netherlands	Shantanu Majumder	Muhammad Badrul Hasan	Governance	2021
M.Phil	Analysis of the importance of Human Rights: Case study Bangladeshin Good Governance	Shantanu Majumder		Md. Ataul Islam	Human Rights and Good Governance	Current Year
M.Phil	Internal Democracy in Major Political Parties: A case study of Bangladesh since 2001	Shantanu Majumder		Md. Maniruzzaman Mamun	Bangladesh Political Parties	Current Year
M.Phil	Religion in politics and state affairs: A comparative study on Bangladesh and India 2001-present	Shantanu Majumder		Sharif Noorjahan	Religion in Politics	Current Year

Project/Research Work

Subject	Project Name	Source of Fund	From Date	To Date	Collaboration
Covid-19 and Faith Groups	Independent Research	N/A	01-08-2022		N/A
Rumor-Control	Countering Rumors in Bangladesh: Challenges and the Way Forward	CGS-CTTC, DMP	01-01-2022	30-06-2021	DU-CTTC, Bangladesh
Violent Extremism (C0- Team Lead)	Violent extremism, gender equality and social cohesion: The Bangladesh case study	UN Women	26-06-2019	26-06-2019
Gender Analysis	Gender Analysis of Operation Plans (OP) in Health, Population and Nutrition (HPN) sector in Bangladesh	Government of Bangladesh	06-02-2018	30-06-2018
Water governance (co-supervisor)	Delta-MAR: Hydrogeological, Technical and Governance Prerequisites for Sustainable Water Supply Through MAR Systems in Urbanizing Deltas, applied to Bangladesh.	NWO, The Dutch Governemt	01-12-2015	31-12-2021	Dhaka University, Utrecht University, Delft University

Invited Talk

SL	Collaboration & Membership Name	Type	Membership Year	Expire Year
No Collaboration & Membership is found

Book
1	Shantanu Majumder The Future of Liberal Democracy in Bangladesh after the COVID-19 Pandemic. Dhaka: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Bangladesh, 2021 . View More

Book Section
1	Shantanu Majumder "Secularism and Anti-secularism." The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh. Ali Riaz and Mohammad Sajjadur Rahman edited London: 2016 40-51 .
2	Shantanu Majumder "What was Wrong in Bangladesh Before the Army Intervention in Politics and State Affairs in 2007." Political Institutions and Conflict: Essays from Bangladesh and India. Imtiaz Ahmed et al New Delhi: 2015 207-222 .
3	Shantanu Majumder "People's Participation in Local Governance." Local Governance and Decentralization in Bangladesh. Abul Barakat et al Dhaka: 2015 205-222 .
4	Shantanu Majumder "Local Government Election: Instrument for Governance." Local Governance and Decentralization in Bangladesh. Abul Barakat et al Dhaka: 2015 223-233 .
5	Shantanu Majumder "Parbatya Chattagram Jana Shanhati Somity (PCJSS)." Banglapedia. Sirajul Islam (Chief Editor) Dhaka: The Asiatic Society, 2003 .

Journal Article
1	Muhammad Badrul Hasan, Peter PJ Driessen, Shantanu Majumder, Annelies Zoomers and Frank van Laerhoven : A Community Management Plus Model for the Governance of Rural Drinking Water Systems: A Comparative Case Study of Pond Sand Filter Systems in Bangladesh, International Journal of the Commons (impact factor:1.792) , vol.14 , no.1 , 2020 .
2	Muhammad Badrul Hasan, Peter PJ Driessen, Shantanu Majumder, Annelies Zoomers and Frank van Laerhoven : Factors affecting consumption of water from a newly introduced safe drinking water system: the case of managed aquifer recharge (MAR) systems in Bangladesh, Water (impact factor:2.069) , vol.11 , no.12 , 2019 .
3	Shantanu Majumder : Three Mandatory “M” in the Elections of Bangladesh, The Indian Journal of Political Science , vol.LXXX , no.3 , pp.451-458 , 2019 . View More
4	Shantanu Majumder : Apparently Insignificant: A Brief Analysis of Less Discussed Obstacles to Bangladesh-India Relationship, Bangladesh Political Science Review , vol.13 , no.1 , pp.32-38 , 2017 .
5	Shantanu Majumder : It Will Take Time for Sure: An Analysis of Democracy Deficit in South Asia, Bangladesh Political Science Review , vol.12 , no.1 , pp.40-51 , 2016 .
6	Shantanu Majumder : Rastra Vasa Andolone Tajuddin Ahmad: Ekti Sankhiptha Parjalochana ( State Language Movement and Tajuddin Ahmed: A Brief Analysis)), Samaj, Orthonity o Rastra (Society Economy and State) , pp.123-130 , 2015 .
7	Shantanu Majumder : Tottabodhyak Sarker Prosonge Sushil Samaj: Ekti Parjalochana (Bangladesh Civil Society on Caretaker Government: A Review), Samaj Nirikkhon , no.128 , pp.1-17 , 2014 .
8	Shantanu Majumder : Understanding Political Secularism in a Comparative Perspective: analyses of the experiments in France, the USA, Turkey and India, of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh , vol.58 , no.2 , pp.217-237 , 2013 .
9	Shantanu Majumder : NGO-Donors Partnership and Decaying of the Traditional Civil Society: The Experience of Bangladesh in the Post-military Era, Identity, Culture, Politics: an Afro-Asian Dialogue , vol.7 , no.1&2 , pp.150-158 , 2006 .
10	Shantanu Majumder : Soldiers and the Myth of Democracy: A study of the democratic transition program in Nigeria and Pakistan, The Dhaka University Studies , vol.59-60 , no.1 , pp.145-162 , 2003 .
11	Shantanu Majumder : Sreni Tatta: Nicos Poulantzas O Erik Olin wright ar Tatta Bishlashan (Class Theory: Analysis of the Theory of Nicos Poulantzas and Erik Olin Wright), Samaj Nirikhaan , no.79 , pp.52-63 , 2001 .
12	Shantanu Majumder : Working of the Parliament of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Political Science Review , vol.1 , no.1 , pp.151-166 , 2001 .
13	Shantanu Majumder : Adhunikata o Uttar Adhunikata (Modernism and Post-modernism), Rajnity-Orthonity Journal , pp.11-17 , 1999 .
14	Shantanu Majumder : Response to Post-modernism in Bangladesh, Journal of Asian Studies , 1997 .

Award Type	Title	Year	Country	Description
International	Commonwealth Scholarship	2001	United Kingdom

Dr. Shantanu Majumder

Professor

Department of Political Science

Faculty of Social Sciences

Email: shantanu.m@du.ac.bd