Nationality Bangladeshi | Education Ph.D. (anthropology) | |
Born 1957 (age 59–60) Bhedarganj Upazila, Shariatpur District, East Pakistan, Pakistan Occupation Vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University Alma maters University of Dhaka, University of Sussex | ||
Farzana Islam (born 1957) is a Bangladeshi academic. She is the current Vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University. In 2014, she became the first female vice-chancellor of a public university in Bangladesh.
Education and career
Islam completed her masters in Sociology from the University of Dhaka in 1980. She then joined Chittagong University as a lecturer of the Department of Sociology in 1982. In 1986, she joined the Department of Anthropology of Jahangirnagar University. She earned her Ph.D. degree from the University of Sussex in 2001.
In March 2014, President of Bangladesh, Abdul Hamid, appointed Islam as the Vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University.
References
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