Work Experience

• Sunan Kalijaga International Postdoctoral Fellow at Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta (Mar-2017 to May-2018)
• Research Fellow Austin at South Asia Institute , University of Texas at (Aug-2016 to Mar-2017)
• Visiting Faculty at Huston-Tillotson University (Jan-2016 to May-2016)
• Lecturer University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro at Centre of Excellence in Arts and Design- Mehran (Jun-2005 to Mar-2007)
• Teaching Assistant at Taxila Institute of Asian Civilization (Jan-2003 to Dec-2003)
• Assistant Regional Officer at Trust for Voluntary Organization (Jan-2001 to Dec-2002)

Education

• PhD (Anthropology), University of Texas at Austin - 2012
• MA (Anthropology), University of Texas at Austin - 2010
• MS (Anthropology), University of Texas at Austin - 2001
• BA (Public Administration), University of Sindh - 1997

Research Interests

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  • Anthropology
  
  
  • Ethnomusicology
  
  
  • Environmental Anthropology
  
  
  • Historiography
  
  
  • Religion
  
  
  • Poetry
  
  
  • Sufi Music
  
  
  • Sufism in Sindh
  
  
  • Pakistan 
  
  
  • Java
  
  

Courses Taught

• ANTHROPOLOGY & DEVELOPMENT
• APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY
• CULMINATING EXPERIENCE II
• ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY
• ETHNOMUSICOLOGY: MUSIC AND CULTURE
• INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
• MS THESIS

Research Output

• Dr. Abdul Haque Chang "Barakah: The Pilgrim’s Divine Gift at the Shrine of Sunan Pandanaran", Liberal Arts and Social Sciences International Journal (LASSIJ), Dec 30, 2020, Peshawar, Pakistan, Pakistan
• Dr. Abdul Haque Chang "The Most Common Target of Violence", The Express Tribune, Oct 05, 2019, Pakistan
• Dr. Abdul Haque Chang "Of Gutka Chewing Piety and the Economic Exploitation of Fishermen of the Indus Delta in Pakistan", Global Ethnographic, Jan 22, 2018, Tokyo, Japan

Projects

• Black, Sindhi-Balochi, and Sacred: The Formation of Afro-Shedi Musical Traditions in Pakistan.


• The Making of Shah Jo Raag: An Ethnographic Study of Sufi Musical Tradition in Sindh, Pakistan.


• Transregional Ecologies of Water Governance: The Brantas River Basin, East Java, and the Indus River, Sindh.


• Jathilan: Traditional Folk Dance of Java, Indonesia.


• Ayo kerja bersama—Let’s Work Together: An ethnographic study of religious premans in Jakarta.


• From Sindhworki to Satya Sai Baba: Sindhi merchants networks in Indonesia.


• Ecological Exception: Environmental Martyrdom in the Indus Delta, Sindh.


• The Issue of Hur: Representation in the Historiography of Sindh.