Dr. Morsaline Mojid has an academic background in sociology, with a career spanning teaching, research, and work on migration and refugee issues. She completed her honours and master’s degrees in Sociology at the University of Dhaka and began her teaching career at the University of Barisal in 2012. She later joined Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, where she was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2014. Over the course of her teaching career, she has taught a wide range of courses, including research methodology, sociology, social ethics, and social justice, as well as economic sociology, sociology of migration, and criminology.
She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research focuses on humanitarianism, refugee governance, and practices of resistance, particularly among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Her doctoral research examines post-humanitarian politics and how systems of humanitarian governance can contribute to forms of protracted and perennial refugeehood. She is particularly interested in how vulnerable communities, including refugees and asylum seekers, become subject to systems of coercion that, while ostensibly organised around protection and care, can also sustain conditions of prolonged displacement. Her work has been supported by competitive fellowships and awards, including the Soroptimist Founder Region Fellowship (2021–2022) and the International Studies Association Dissertation Fellowship (2023–2024). She is a member of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and the UK Evaluation Society.