Masum Billah

Md. Masum Billah is a Lecturer in the department of anthropology at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh, where he has served since October 2025. He holds both a Bachelor of Social Science (2016–2020) and a Master of Social Science (2021–2022) in Anthropology from SUST, and was awarded the Peter Haore & Mushtaq Rahman Scholarship by the department in 2021. Before joining the faculty, he worked as a Research Assistant in SUST's Department of Architecture (2024–2025), and earlier completed an internship with Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) in 2020, gaining exposure to community-oriented development work. His academic and research interests span several applied areas of anthropology, including public health and medical anthropology, business anthropology, climate change and environment, indigenous and marginalized community issues, migration and diaspora, political anthropology, and visual media and culture. At SUST, he teaches courses such as Fundamentals of Anthropology, Migration and Diaspora, Political Anthropology, and Visual Media&Culture, reflecting this broad range of interests.