Dr Mohamed Haseeb, Assistant Professor of History of this college, has been selected for the prestigious Fulbright Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship instituted and funded by the U.S Department of State, the U.S Department of Education, and the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and other key entities.
The Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship is one of the most esteemed and highly competitive international research awards, enabling exceptional scholars to conduct advanced research in the United States.
The highly competitive one-year fellowship will support his project titled “ Restudy, Repatriate and Digitalise: The Traditional Songs and Performing Arts of Kerala”
His research will examine how to restudy the rarest sound and visual records (1930-39) of Malabar that are kept at various US universities and repatriate those lost songs back to Malabar, where the memories of the song are still located. The project will combine Restudy, repatriation and digitalization keeping the idea of an archive for the future. The fellowship will be hosted at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr Haseeb completed his PhD on Mappilappatu: A Source to Reach the Life of Mappilas of Malabar, from Mangalore University, in 2025 under the supervision of Prof. KM Lokesh. He earlier carried out his Master’s and Batchelors Program at the PSMO College (Autonomous), Tirurangadi.
Dr Haseeb has already demonstrated strong academic promise, having been an Indian Council of Historical Research Junior Research Fellow. In addition to presenting his work at multiple conferences internationally, like the University of Dublin, Istanbul University, University of Ghana, University of Keleniya, Cambridge University and presenting research papers at the International Council for Traditional Music and Dance world conference and Society for Ethnomusicology annual conference.
He is a native of Parappanangadi, son of Hamza N. and Balkees N., and is married to Thasnim Nandanil.
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Dr K Sameera
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