Samina Hossain
Credentials: PhD Student
Position title: Sociology
| Previous Institution(s) | |
| Tufts University, University of Michigan | |
| Areas of Research Interest | |
| Modernity, Secularism, Historical-Comparative Sociology, Contemporary South Asia, Bengal | |
| Areas of General Interest | |
| Sociology of Religion, Religious Practice, Bourdieusian Analysis, Social Theory, Intellectual History, Political Sociology, State Formation, Class Analysis, Multiculturalism, Citizenship | |
| List of published and non-published works | |
| Favorite part about CSA | |
| The nation’s largest conference on South Asia that brings together scholars from all over the world, the kind staff of the Center, the huge free lunches at the start and end of semester, meeting new and old faces at the Center | |
| Hobbies | |
| Hiking, Language Study, Classic Bengali Cinema, Painting, listening to comedy stand ups if that counts! | |
| Favorite part of living in Madison | |
| The four beautiful seasons, tree-lined streets, kindness of the people, natural preserve on the West Side which is home to a marsh ecosystem as well as a large variety of birds including storks, one of the country’s largest farmers markets |