Tamanna Rashid
Graduate Student
Education
M.A., Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Expected 2026
M.S.S, Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh 2017
B.S.S, Sociology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh 2015
Research Areas
Urban sociology, political economy, cultural studies, social movements, public health, qualitative research.
Awards/Grants/Scholarships
2024 OIE Travel Grant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amount: 600 USD
2023-2026 Research Enhancement and Leadership (REAL) Fellowship (Summer program), Graduate School, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amount: 20,000 USD
2022-2023 Mujib 100 Research Grants for Women Protocol, Donor: icddr,b, Bangladesh, Amount: 41,125 USD
2022 UGC Research Grant (Code: 3257103), Approved by: BSMRSTU, Bangladesh, Amount: 1500 USD
2023 Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (4 cities program- Denied)
2023- Graduate Fellowship and Assistantship, Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
2016 Sultana Ahmed Kamal Trust Fund Scholarship, Graduate Scholarship-2014
2016 Nawab Ali Choudhury Alumni Scholarship, Graduate Scholarship-2014
2016 Nujhat Jahangir Memorial Scholarship, Graduate Scholarship-2014
2016 Nur Hossain Memorial Scholarship, Graduate Scholarship-2014
2011 Board Scholarship, Government of Bangladesh
2013 Fatema Iqbal Trust Scholarship, Shamsunnahar Hall, University of Dhaka
2008 Board Scholarship, Government of Bangladesh
2005 Awarded Talent-Pole scholarship, Government of Bangladesh
Research Interests
Gentrification studies, Public Health, Feminist research, Neoliberal Governance, Urban Space, Post-Colonial Studies, Mixed research method
Selected Publications
2025 Rashid, T., Arefin, S., Bhattacharjee, M. et al. Comparative study of stigma and discrimination among vaccinated and non-vaccinated COVID-19 survivors in Bangladesh. BMC Infect Dis 25, 338, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-025-10734-8 (Impact factor: 3.40, Q1)
2022 Shamsul Arefin, Tamanna Rashid; Mowsume Bhattacharjee, Md. Didarul Habib, Md. Ashraful Islam and Mohammad Anisur Rahaman. “The Whole Sky Has Broken Down on Me. I Might Die Alone: A Qualitative Study on the Lived Experiences of COVID-19 Positive Frontline Workers in Bangladesh”, Frontiers inSociology.7:1054921, https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.1054921
(Impact factor: 2.0, Q1)
2021 Rashid, Tamanna. Unfolding Gentrification in Dhaka City, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Hum.), Volume 66, issue 1, pp: 61-81, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354100187_Unfolding_Gentrification_in_Dhaka_City
2021 Arefin, Shamsul; Rashid, Tamanna. The Urban Poor in Dhaka: Perspectives on the Right to the City, Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, Vol. (13), Issue (1), pp. 145-161. https://doi.org/10.37043/JURA.2021.13.1.9, (Impact factor: 0.8, Q3)
2019 Shamsul Areifn, Tamanna Rashid, Didarul Habib. Infrastructural Development and Vulnerabilities: A Study of two Selected Fly-over projects in Dhaka City, Bangladesh, Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7 (7), pp. 18-29, https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2019.77003
2018 Arefin, S., & Rashid, T. Access to urban services in the wave of neoliberalism: A study of the urban poor in Dhaka, Bangladesh. International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2(11), 153-158.
Working Paper
2025- HIV stigma beliefs and unprotected sex among unmarried male in India (with David Cort and Upashana Gowshami, Umass Amherst)
2025- Silenced Voices: Reexamining the 1971 Rape Victims in Bangladesh and the Unfulfilled Promises of Integration from a Global South Feminist Perspective (with Shamsul Arefin, Umass Amherst)
2025- Blaming the Rape-Victims in Bangladesh: A Socio-Cultural Context (with Nusrat Tayef and Shamsul Arefin, Umass Amherst)