Dr. Serajul I.
Bhuiyan, Professor and Principal Investigator
Dr. Serajul
I. Bhuiyan is a Professor and Director of Mass
Communications and Journalism, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. Dr.
Bhuiyan comes to Lincoln
from working as a journalism
professor, print journalist and an international training consultant
abroad. Dr. Bhuiyan began his career as a faculty with Bangladesh Agricultural University
in 1986 and
served the university until 1991. He worked as an Assistant
Professor in
the School of Communication Studies at NanyangTechnological University
in Singapore
for three years (1996-1999). During that period, Dr. Bhuiyan was
a
Visiting Professor at the University
of South Australia, the Griffith University
in Australia,
and at the National University of Ireland. Dr. Bhuiyan joined Alcorn State
University in Mississippi as
an Associate Professor of
Communications in Fall 1999 and worked
there until
June 30, 2002. He joined Texas A & M University-Texarkana as
Associate
Professor and Program Director of Mass Communications/Journalism
Department on
July 1, 2002.
He joined Lincoln University
as a Professor and Director of Mass Communications and Journalism.
Dr. Bhuiyan earned his Ph.D.
degree in Mass Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
in May
1996 as a World Bank Scholar. He received his M.B.A. from Texas A&M University
in 2003. He
received his B.Sc. (Hon.) in Ag. Economics and
Rural
Sociology and M.Sc. in Ag. Communication
from Bangladesh
Agricultural University. He further studied at Cornell University, Iowa
State University,
University of Dubuque, Iowa,
and at the University of Philippines at Los Banos, Philippines.
He has received professional
training in journalism and communication from Harvard University, Dow
Jones
Newspaper Fund Inc., Poynter Institute,
American
Press Institute, American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Pew Research Center. He worked for the United Nations,
the Netherlands Government, and the government of Malaysia
as a training
consultant. He worked with the newspapers as a reporter/stringer/
guest
columnist and associate editor for about 15 years in USA,
Singapore, Japan and Bangladesh. Dr.
Bhuiyan was
an associate editor of Madison Times, guest columnist for Wisconsin
State
Journal, The Capital Times in Wisconsin,
USA, The Business Times
in Singapore and
the Asahi
Evening News in Tokyo.
He was a news reporter for the Daily Ittefaq,
The New
Nation, Radio and Television in Bangladesh.
Dr. Bhuiyan was
awarded a
fellowship from the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE)
Institute for
Journalism Excellence in the summer 2001. Under this fellowship, he
worked for
the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, a Night Ridder
newspaper in Georgia,
and he interviewed former President Jimmy Carter in July 20, 2001,
which
created national and international headlines. He acted as a peer reviewer for
various professional journals in Asia, Australia
and in United States.
Dr. Bhuiyan is actively involved in Association for Education in
Journalism and
Mass Communication. He has authored over 48 research papers and wrote a
chapter
of a book on "Media in Asia."
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