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Professor Haroun Er Rashid is Director of the School of Environmental Science and Management at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). For several years he has had major responsibility for IUB's "Live-in-Field Experience", which sends urban-based students into the rural villages and urban settlements to impress upon them the socio-economic realities faced by the majority of Bangladeshis. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and author of the definitive geographical text on Bangladesh, Rashid has graduate degrees in geography and development economics and is the founder of a private voluntary national development organization, Bangladesh POUSH, whose primary objective is to enable small-holder and landless families to generate more income for themselves from environmentally sound projects and programs.
Professor Talim Hossain is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology in the School of Liberal Arts and Science at the Independent University, Bangladesh. Professor Hossain’s Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Berne, Switzerland, was titled, ‘Potentials of Increasing Crop Production and Agricultural Development in Bangladesh: An Anthropological Study.’ His research in rural Bangladesh is extensive and he has also studied landscape and flooding as well as health centers in Bangladesh. He has worked in anthropological research for both Canadian and Swiss development agencies on development projects in rural Bangladesh. He has also assisted several international scholars in their research in rural Bangladesh. Professor Hossain is originally from a village in Gazipur district, north of Dhaka.
Professor Cris Toffolo is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Justice & Peace Studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. She has her M.A., from George Washington University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Toffolo has specializations in political theory and comparative Third World politics. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for her work on ethnicity. Her research focuses on: Pakistan, human and women's rights, nationalism and ethnicity and political development. She serves as the Pakistan Expert of the South Asia Coordination Group of Amnesty International (USA). Publications include: "Pakistan," World Encyclopedia of Political Systems and Parties, Princeton NJ, 1999; "Crimes of Blasphemy in Pakistan" Christian Century 115:21, (July 29, 1998); and an edited volume, Emancipating Cultural Pluralism. Dr. Toffolo has lived and worked in Nigeria, Pakistan and France, and has recently traveled, in connection with her work, to Northern Ireland and occasionally teaches in Guatemala.
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