Background
He was born in Lahore and his family migrated to the United Kingdom during his childhood.
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Education
He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Honours in History from the University of North London where he was a student of Professor Denis Judd. He was then awarded a British Academy scholarship to study for a Doctor of Philosophy in Modern History at Street Antony"s College, Oxford University under the supervision of the eminent Indian historian Professor Tapan Raychaudhuri.
Career
He is Professor of South Asian Studies and the Director of the Ethnicity and Social Policy Research Centre (ESPRC) at the University of Bradford. He was brought up and educated in South Merton, London. Prior to being an academic he worked in commerce and left as Managing Director of Samad Carpets, working in various offices across London, Lahore and Karachi.
He taught at AFRAS at Sussex University and then was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations, Warwick University working with the renowned sociologist Professor John Rex.
He was appointed as a lecturer at Bradford University in 1994. He has conducted a number of funded projects, working for various organisations, such as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Economic Social Research Council, The European Commission and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Politics
Samad’s main areas of interest are transnationalism, ethnicity, nationalism, and identity politics in South Asia and Europe. A Nation in Turmoil: Nationalism and Ethnicity in Pakistan 1937-1958, Sage, New Delhi, 1995.
Membership
He was a member of the Expert Group on Humanities advising the European Commission on its FP 7 Research Programme (2005-2006) and is a Trustee of the Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust (2010). He has played a prominent role in the organisation of a number of learned societies and was Vice-chairman of the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) (1999–2003), Executive Committee member of the European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS)(1997–2003) and was Deputy Director of the South Asia Research Centre, Geneva (2004-2008).
