Sharif Wahab

Pronouns:

He/him

Phone:

(812) 855-2237

Email:

swahab@iu.edu

Department:

Geography

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Major:

Ph.D. Candidate

Research interests

Political Geography, Urban Geography, Forced Displacement, Refugee Studies, South Asia, Rohingya

About Sharif Wahab

Sharif Wahab is a human geographer with expertise in protracted displacement and its impact on mobilities and belonging in South Asia. Sharif's research focuses on the place-based governance of protracted Rohingya refugees in the Kutupalong refugee camp, Cox's Bazar city, and Bhasan Char Island in Bangladesh. He taught as an Instructor of Record for Regions of the World and assisted in teaching Environment and Society.

Publications

Wahab, S. 2022. Hybrid Governmentality in Practice: Territoriality and Biopolitics in the Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh. Political Geography, Vol 94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102568

Wahab, S. & Ashutosh, I. 2022. Displacing South Asia: Urbanization through Forced Migration. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Vol 112, Number 2, https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2021.2023001 

Primary Advisor

Ishan Ashutosh