Fahmida Zaman
Graduate Student
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
Fahmida Zaman is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Delaware with a concentration in comparative politics and research methods. Her dissertation examines the
rise of digital authoritarianism using a mixed-method approach and with
a regional focus on South Asia. Her most recent publication is titled
"Working Under the 'Sword of Damocles': Experiences of Journalists in a
Hybrid Regime." She is the co-editor and contributing author to
Political Violence in South Asia (Routledge, 2019). Her academic and
non-academic writings on internet freedom, democratization, identity
politics and social movements in Bangladesh have appeared in the
Journal of African and Asian Studies, South Asia Journal, The National
Interest, The Daily Star, the Star Weekend, the Dhaka Tribune and
others. Zaman has taught at the Asian University for Women as well as at
the Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center in Bangladesh.
Zaman is a
research consultant with Freedom House and has worked with Wilson
Center in Washington D.C. She participated in the Institute for
Qualitative and Multi-Method Research summer school in 2022 at Syracuse
University as well as the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Journalism Bootcamp in December of 2021. She is a U.S. Department of
State alumn.
Research Interests
Digital authoritarianism, internet and democracy, democratic backsliding, media freedom, protests, social movements, hybrid regimes, South Asia.
Publications
Zaman, F. (2022). Mechanisms of Digital Authoritarianism: The Case of Bangladesh. SAIS Review of International Affairs 42(2), 85-101.
Riaz, A., Zaman, F. (2022). Working Under the “Sword of Damocles”: Experiences of Journalists in a Hybrid Regime. In: Ruud, A.E., Hasan, M. (eds) Masks of Authoritarianism. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.
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