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Dr. Waquar Ahmed

Associate Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Geography and the Environment

Email: Waquar.Ahmed@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, Clark University, 2007
    Major: Geography
    Dissertation: Spaces of Power: Foreign Direct Investment in India
  • MPhil, Center for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2002
    Major: Geography
    Dissertation: Society Nature Relations and Traditional Knowledge of Indigenous Communities – A Case Study of Uttaranchal
  • MA, Center for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2000
    Major: Geography
  • BCOM, St. Xavier's College, University of Calcutta, 1995
    Major: Accountancy, Commerce, Economics, Statistics, Business Management

Professional Positions

  • Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa. University of Hawaii at Manoa. (2011 - 2012).
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College. Mount Holyoke College. (2008 - 2011).
  • Instructor, Pennsylvania State University. Pennsylvania State University. (2007 - 2008).

    • Academic - Post-Secondary

  • Affiliated Faculty of Women and Gender studies, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2018 - Present).

    • Professional

  • Board member, Institute of Human Geography. Institute of Human Geography. (2021 - Present).
  • Managing Editor, Human Geography. Human Geography. (2019 - Present).
  • International Advisory Board Member, ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies. ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies. (2016 - Present).
  • Editorial Board Member, Capitalism Nature Socialism. Capitalism Nature Socialism. (2013 - Present).
  • Editorial Board/Editorial collective, Review of Radical Political Economics. Review of Radical Political Economics. (2016 - 2021).
  • Editorial Board Member, Human Geography. Human Geography. (2009 - 2018).
  • Chair, Development Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. Development Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. (2014 - 2017).

Professional Memberships

  • Gamma Theta Upsilon. (May 2007 - Present).
  • Association of American Geographers. (2003 - Present).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • GEOG 1200 - Global Societies, 8 courses.
  • GEOG 3010 - Economic Geography, 13 courses.
  • GEOG 4245 - Geography of International Development, 5 courses.
  • GEOG 4420 - Capitalism, Nature and Climate Change, 12 courses.
  • GEOG 4885 - Human Geography Topics, 2 courses.
  • GEOG 4900 - Special Problems, 2 courses.
  • GEOG 4951 - Honors College Capstone Thesis, 1 course.
  • GEOG 5130 - Research in Human Geography, 2 courses.
  • GEOG 5160 - Foundations of Geographic Thought, 7 courses.
  • GEOG 5245 - International Development, 6 courses.
  • GEOG 5420 - Critical Resource Geography, 11 courses.
  • GEOG 5900 - Special Problems, 9 courses.
  • GEOG 5950 - Master's Thesis, 22 courses.

Directed Student Learning

  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, ""For the Times, They are a -- Changin: Spatial Elements of Capital Colonization in the Music of the Folk Revival movement," Geography and the Environment. (August 2018).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Climate Injustice and Commodification of Land, Lives and Livelihoods in Southwest Costal Bangladesh," Geography and the Environment. (2022 - July 2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Global Techno-Capitalism and Extreme Right Ideology in Cyberspace: Understanding Political, Economic, and Ideological Utility on YouTube, GAB, and Discord," Geography and the Environment. (September 2021 - May 2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN MALLS: SPECTACULAR (UN)CREATIVE DESTRUCTIONS, LUXURY MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENTS, AND THE NEW MULTICULTURAL GENTRIFICATION," Geography and the Environment. (2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Neoliberal Entrepreneurialism and the Creative Destruction of the Great American Mall," Geography and the Environment. (September 2020 - May 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Hurricane Harvey and the Devastation of Dispossession," Geography and the Environment. (2018 - 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Behind the curtain of Public Space: Revealing the narratives of "corporate hawkers" in Globalizing Accra," Geography and the Environment. (September 2019 - July 16, 2021).
  • Undergraduate Honors Thesis, "Alternative Agriculture & Neoliberalism: A Texas Case Study," Geography and the Environment. (October 2020 - May 10, 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "The Political Economy of Retailing Sustainable Food: Green Consumerism and Sustainability," Geography and the Environment. (September 2017 - July 30, 2020).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Women in Wrestling Arenas: How Globalization, Socially Produced Spaces, and Commodification Impact their Portrayal and Empowerment Post Women’s Revolution," Geography and the Environment. (September 2017 - May 2020).
  • Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, "Climate Change and Water Security in South Africa: Assessing Conflict and Coping Strategies in KwaZulu-Natal Province," Political Science. (2019).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "GREEN ENTREPRENURIALISM AND THE MAKING OF THE TRINITY RIVER CORRIDOR: THE INTERESTION OF NATURE AND CAPITAL IN DALLAS, TEXAS," Geography and the Environment. (2017 - 2019).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Seeds of Disempowerment? Bt Cotton & Accumulation by Dispossession In India A study of Maharashtra & Andhra Pradesh," Geography and the Environment. (2016 - 2018).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Urban hydraulic rhizome: water appropriation and reproduction of space in North Texas," Geography and the Environment. (2014 - 2017).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Reconstructing Identity with Urban Community Agriculture: How Refugees Confront Displacement, Food Insecurity, and Othering through Community Farming," Geography and the Environment. (2014 - 2017).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Geography and the Environment. (2013 - 2015).
  • Other, "What is 'Mixed-Use?': Evaluating the Retail Landscape of New Urban Development in Dallas-Fort Worth," Geography and the Environment. (2012 - 2015).
  • Other, "Assessing The Role Of Smaller Format Retailers On The Food Desert Landscape In Dallas, Texas," (2012 - 2013).
  • Other, (2012 - 2013).
  • Other, "The Urbanization of Hanoi under Neoliberalism and Its Effects on Slum Settlements," (2008 - 2010).
  • Other, "Neoliberalism, Microfinance, and Women's Empowerment in Rural India," (2008 - 2010).

Awards and Honors

  • Earl Cook Award, Energy and Environment Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers. (2007).
  • Travel Award, Asian Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers. (2007).
  • Travel Award, Organizing Committee of the Second Global Conference on Economic Geography. (2007).
  • Best Graduate Student Paper, Urban Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers. (2006).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • McCusker, B., Ahmed, W., Solis, P., Ramutsindela, M. (2021). Routledge Handbook of Environment and Development. New York, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Development-and-Environment/McCusker-Ahmed-Ramutsindela-Solis/p/book/9781138325661
  • Amitabh Kundu and Richard Peet. (2011). India's New Economic Policy: A Critical Analysis.
  • Suman Sahai and B. Mahanta. (2005). Farmers' Perception on Agro-biodiversity.
  • Suman Sahai and U. Kumar. (2005). Indigenous Knowledge: Issues for developing countries.

    • Book Chapter

  • McCusker, B., Ahmed, W., Solis, P., Ramutsindela, M. (2021). Introduction: Development and Environment in the 2020s. The Routledge Handbook of Development and Environment. 3-16. New York, https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Routledge_Handbook_of_Development_an/rLBHEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Routledge+handbook+of+development+and+environment&printsec=frontcover
  • Furtick, R., Ahmed, W. (2021). Is This Land Made for You and Me. The Routledge Handbook of Development and Environment. 112-127. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Development-and-Environment/McCusker-Ahmed-Ramutsindela-Solis/p/book/9781138325661
  • Simon, J., Ahmed, W. (2021). Terra sacer: water infrastructure and core-periphery reconfiguration in Dallas/Fort Worth. The Routledge Handbook of Development and Environment. 161-178. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Development-and-Environment/McCusker-Ahmed-Ramutsindela-Solis/p/book/9781138325661
  • Ahmed, W., Underwood, R. (2017). 'Corporations and Multilateral Organizations. The International Encyclopedia of Geography (John Wiley & Sons in collaboration with the American Association of Geographers). 1-10. John Wiley & Sons in collaboration with the American Association of Geographers.
  • Ahmed, W., Chatterjee, I., Cafruny, A., Talani, L.S., Martin, G.P. (2016). Antinomies of the Indian State. The Palgrave Handbook of Critical International Political Economy. 331-50. London, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ahmed, W., Underwood, R., Lee, T., Warf, B. (2016). Energy and geopolitics. Oxford bibliographies in Geography. Oxford University Press.
  • Edited by Waquar Ahmed, Amitabh Kundu and Richard Peet. (2011). From Mixed Economy to Neoliberalism: Class and Caste in India's Policy Transition. In India's New Economic Policy: A Critical Analysis.
  • Edited by K. R. Gupta. (2008). Indigenous Communities and their Marginalized Space in India. In Studies in Indian Economy.
  • Edited by G. Raverkar, P. S. Rawat and V. Dar. (2006). Mobile Global Capital and Corporate Ethics. In Business Ethics, Challenges & Scenario Ahead: A Compendium of Research Papers.

    • Book Review

  • Ahmed, W. (2010). Space, Oil and Capital, by Mazen Labban.

    • Journal Article

  • Ansah, H., Ahmed, W. (2023). Behind the Curtain of PublicSpaces: Revealing the Narratives of Corporate Street Hawking in Globalizing Accra.. Geographical Review. 113 (5) 647-665. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00167428.2023.2177994
  • Ahmed, W. (2023). Nurturing the production of nature. Human Geography. 16 (1) 101-103. https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786221105800
  • Ahmed, W. (2023). Understanding Marxist ‘Development’ in Marx’s Terms in a World of Climate Change. Area Development and Policy. 8 (4) 460-472. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23792949.2023.2199070
  • Ahmed, W. (2022). Marxist Geography: A Personal Journey. Human Geography. 15 (1) 45-51. SAGE. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/hug
  • Ahmed, W. (2019). India Has Lost All Moral Authority and Right over Kashmir. 12 (1) 78-81. Institute For Human Geography Inc. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/human-geography/journal203685
  • Chatterjee, I., Ahmed, W. (2019). Dialectical materialism: Marx’s method in human geography?. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies. 18 (2) 364-393.
  • Ahmed, W. (2018). India Abroad, or Hinduism, a Love Story. Human Geography. 11 (3) 83-87. MA, Institute of Human Geography.
  • Simon, J., Ahmed, W. (2018). The Promise of Progress: Modernity, Accumulation, and the Urbanization of North Texas Water in the 20th Century.. Human Geography. 11 (2) 19-34. Bolton, MA, https://hugeog.com/the-promise-of-progress-modernity-accumulation-and-the-urbanization-of-north-texas-water-in-the-20th-century/
  • Ahmed, W. (2018). Governing foreign direct investment: post-Enron initiatives in India. Review of Radical Political Economics. 50 (1) 5-23.
  • Steve Wolverton, Justin M. Nolan and Waquar Ahmed. (2014). Ethnobiology, Political Ecology, and Conservation.
  • Ahmed, W. (2014). The political economy and geopolitical context of India's economic crisis, 1990-91.
  • Waquar Ahmed and Ipsita Chatterjee. (2013). Contradictory policies of neoliberalizing India.
  • Ahmed, W. (2012). From Militant Particularism to Anti-neoliberalism? - The Anti-Enron Movement in India.
  • Sagie Narsiah. (2012). The Neoliberalization of Water and Energy sectors in South Africa and India.
  • Ahmed, W. (2010). Neo-liberalism, Corporations and Power: Enron in India.
  • Ahmed, W. (2009). From Mixed Economy to Neoliberalism: Class and Caste in India's Economic Transition.
  • Ahmed, W. (2008). Neoliberalism and Contested Policies of the Power Industry in India.
  • Ahmed, W. (2006). Capital and Labor: Contestation in India in the Neo-liberal Era.
  • Ahmed, W. (2006). Global Discourses and Local Politics in the Production of Power Policy in India.

    • Magazine/Trade Publication

  • Ahmed, W. (2020). Pondering Over Syed Ahmad Khan’s Legacy, And Questions Of Caste Among Muslims. New Delhi, https://www.karvaanindia.com/2020/10/19/pondering-over-syed-ahmad-khans-legacy-and-questions-of-caste-among-muslims/?fbclid=IwAR2UrJqNbpM0qvjUZ_TwpsRDblegYYvNqVWkMWs0kWs4GcS8O9JgVieWgbQ
  • Ahmed, W. (2020). The USCRIF Report On India As Opportunity For Victims To Contest Their Tormentors. New Delhi, Karvaan India. https://www.karvaanindia.com/2020/05/10/the-uscrif-report-on-india-as-opportunity-for-victims-to-contest-their-tormentors/?fbclid=IwAR3lsoMGBlDlXjrOjQJ2XKSKt_xGTyKqb0ntuDDSTYU-1KnisSXAiWPtMiQ
  • Ahmed, W. (2008). Defending Democracy.
  • Ahmed, W. (2008). Our Own War.

    • Newspaper

  • Ahmed, W. (2020). Normalization of Hate in India -- Part II. Balochistan Times. https://www.balochistantimes.pk/epaper/popup.php?newssrc=issues/2020-05-07/377/03.jpg
  • Ahmed, W. (2020). Normalization of Hate in India -- Part I. Balochistan Times. https://www.balochistantimes.pk/epaper/popup.php?newssrc=issues/2020-05-06/353/03.jpg

    • Popular Press Article

  • Ahmed, W. (2009). Tumor in uniform.

    • Reprinted Article

  • Ahmed, W. (2020). Casteist or Progressive? Pondering Over Syed Ahmad Khan’s Legacy. Naya Daur. https://nayadaur.tv/amp/2020/10/casteist-or-progressive-pondering-over-syed-ahmad-khans-legacy/?fbclid=IwAR3i38A688nX1AWFzGj4Ut__Vc2zxpMCmZHUPoOyaNFMKRtVZLmjVxx2RFU
  • Ahmed, W. (2020). India: Politics Of Hate Continues To Spiral Amid COVID-19 Pandemic. Naya Daur. https://nayadaur.tv/2020/05/india-politics-of-hate-continues-to-spiral-amid-covid-19-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR2wT8HHF5sNAdydrAT8nGgcHZJhfMc4nftx0M1dUc0I0MdrK8SjHQldhpQ#

Presentations Given

  • Panel Discussion, (2013 - 2013).
  • Panel Discussion, (2012 - 2012).
  • Ahmed, W. (Other), Spaces of Power: Foreign Direct Investments in India, (2012 - 2012).
  • Ahmed, W. (Other), Foreign Direct Investments and Corporate Power: Enron, GE and Bechtel in India, (2011 - 2011).
  • Paper Presented, (2011 - 2011).
  • Panel Discussion, (2010 - 2010).
  • Ahmed, W. (Other), Political Geography of Pakistan and Afghanistan, (2010 - 2010).
  • Panel Discussion, (2009 - 2009).
  • Panel Discussion, (2009 - 2009).
  • Paper Presented, (2009 - 2009).
  • Ahmed, W. (Other), Social, Political and Economic Geography of South Asia, (2009 - 2009).
  • Panel Discussion, (2008 - 2008).
  • Paper Presented, (2008 - 2008).
  • Paper Session, (2008 - 2008).
  • Paper Presented, (2007 - 2007).
  • Paper Presented, (2007 - 2007).
  • Paper Presented, (2007 - 2007).
  • Paper Presented, (2007 - 2007).
  • Paper Session, (2007 - 2007).
  • Paper Presented, (2006 - 2006).
  • Paper Presented, (2006 - 2006).
  • Paper Presented, (2005 - 2005).
  • Paper Presented, (2004 - 2004).

    • Invited Talk

  • Ahmed, W. (Presenter), Globalisation and Development: Marxist Dilemmas, Globalisation and Development: Marxist Dilemmas, RSA Regions Cities Industry Webinar Series event on December 15, 2021:, Webinar, United Kingdom. (2021 - 2021).
  • Ahmed, W. (Author), Secularism and its origins, Origins and Contradictions of Secularism and it's Prospects in India, MSO of Aligarh Muslim University, India. (2020 - 2020).
  • Ahmed, W. (Author & Presenter), 71st Annual Convention of the Texas Community College Teachers Association, Capitalism and Climate Change, Texas Community College Teachers Association, Frisco, TX, United States of America. (2018).
  • Ahmed, W. (Author & Presenter), State-society, democracy and exclusion, Department of Political Science, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2016).
  • Ahmed, W. (Author & Presenter), foreign direct investment as neo-colonialism – the geography of power, Presidency University, Kolkata, India, India. (2015).

    • Keynote/Plenary Address

  • Ahmed, W. (Other), World Geography Conference, Globalization, unsustainability and food insecurity: from livelihoods to profit maximization., Region 10 Education Service Center, Richardson, TX, Texas, United States of America. (2014 - 2014).

    • Oral Presentation

  • Ahmed, W. (Author & Presenter), International conference on caste, inequality and economic growth in South Asia, Commentary on keynote address delivered by Sukhadeo Thoral at the international conference on caste, inequality and economic growth in South Asia, Center for Global Development and Sustainability at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, MA, United States of America. (2016 - 2016).

    • Panel Presentation

  • Ahmed, W. (Panelist), Business and Economic Dimensions of Covid-19, COVID and Global inequality, UNT Geography, Zoom, United States of America. (2020).
  • Ahmed, W. (Panelist), UNT Geography Reacts to COVID-19, Understand COVID 19 as a human geographer, UNT Geography, Zoom, United States of America. (2020).
  • Ahmed, W. (Chair), AAG Annual Meeting 2019, The Geographer Marx, American Association of Geographers, Washington, DC, United States of America. (2019).
  • Ahmed, W. (Panelist), AAG Annual Meeting 2019, Uneven Geographies of Electricity Capital III: Panel Session, American Association of Geographers, Washington, DC, United States of America. (2019).
  • Ahmed, W. (Chair), Imperial Legacies of 1919, Resisting Intervention, University of North Texas, University of North Texas, United States of America. (2019).
  • Ahmed, W. (Panelist), Annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, 50 Years of Clark Radical Geography I, American Association of Geographers, Boston, MA, United States of America. (2017).
  • Ahmed, W. (Other), Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, American Association of Geographers, American Association of Geographers, 2015, United States of America. (2015).
  • Ahmed, W. (Author & Presenter), Annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Institutional Capital and Socio-ecological ills and wills, American Association of Geographers, Chicago, United States of America. (2015).
  • Ahmed, W. (Panelist), Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Development geographies: scale, directions, visions, American Association of Geographers, Tampa, FL, United States of America. (2014).

    • Paper

  • Keya, K. (Author & Presenter), Ahmed, W. (Author), American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Climate Injustice and Commodification of Lives and Livelihoods in Southwest Coastal Bangladesh, American Association of Geographers, Denver, United States of America. (2023).
  • Ahmed, W. (Author & Presenter), American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Climate Justice as Imperial Hubris of the West, American Association of Geographers, Denver, CO, United States of America. (2023).
  • Ahmed, W. (Author & Presenter), Annual meeting of Southwest Division of the American Association of Geographers, Confronting Climate Change with Marxist Theory of Development, American Association of Geographers, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America. (2022).
  • Das, N. (Author & Presenter), Ahmed, W. (Author), Annual meeting of the Southwest Division of the American Association of Geographers, Economic Growth and Reflections of Cost Recovery Considerations in Municipal Solid Waste Management., American Association of Geographers, Fayetteville, Arkansas., United States of America. (2022).
  • Ahmed, W. (Author), AAG Annual Meeting 2019, Neoliberal Indian State as Caste Power, American Association of Geographers, Washington, DC, United States of America. (2019).
  • Ahmed, W. (Author & Presenter), Annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Indian State in contested accumulation, American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, United States of America. (2018).
  • Ahmed, W. (Author & Presenter), Development Geographies Specialty Group of AAG pre-conference, Liberal democracy and development, Development Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers, Worcester, MA, United States of America. (2017).
  • Ahmed, W. (Author & Presenter), Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Re-conceptualizing the liberal democratic state, Association of American Geographrs, San Francisco, CA, United States of America. (2016).
  • Ahmed, W. (Author & Presenter), Annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Power/Knowledge and Foreign Direct Investments in Energy in India, American Association of Geographers, Chicago, United States of America. (2015).
  • Ahmed, W. (Author & Presenter), Annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Antinomies of the Indian state, American Association of Geographers, Tampa, FL, United States of America. (2014).
  • Ahmed, W. (Author & Presenter), Chatterjee, I. (Author & Presenter), Annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Contradictory Policies of Neoliberalizing India, American Association of Geographers, Los Angeles, United States of America. (2013 - 2013).

Media Contributions

    Internet

  • "Supreme Court of India's verdict on the Babri Masjid/Ram Janmabhoomi dispute," Vocie of America. (November 13, 2019).
  • "7 Billion People and our Future," Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa. (2012).

    • Magazine

  • "Defending Democracy," Outlook. (2008).
  • "Our Own War," Outlook. (2008).

    • Newspaper

  • "Tumor in uniform," Hindustan Times. (2009).

    • Radio

  • "US Special Representative on Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad’s visit to India and the prospects of peace in Afghanistan," Voice of America. (September 23, 2020).
  • "Analysis of the many poll predictions of US elections," Voice of America. (September 20, 2020).
  • "US presidential elections 2020," Voice of America. (August 9, 2020).
  • "Upcoming US presidential elections," Voice of America. (July 23, 2020).
  • "Anti-racist protests across the USA, China’s new line of control asserted against India, and President Trump’s telephone conversation with Narendra Modi," Voice of America. (June 3, 2020).
  • "Annual report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom,," Voice of America. (May 4, 2020).
  • "COVID and President Trump's immigration ban," Voice of America. (April 23, 2020).
  • "President Donald Trump's visits India," Voice of America. (February 25, 2020).
  • "Verdict of the Indian Supreme Court on the Babri Masjid/Ram Janmabhoomi Dispute," Voice of America. (November 13, 2019).
  • "Increased military presence, unrest and tensions in Kashmir," Voice of America. (August 15, 2019).

    • TV

  • "Reflection of January 6 2020 mob violence in and outside White House," Voice of America. (January 6, 2024).
  • "Gun Violence in the United States," Voice of America. (July 8, 2023).
  • "Texas Power Grid Crisis," Denton Cronicle. (November 2022).
  • "Texas Power Crisis of February 2021," NTTV. (November 8, 2022).
  • "Impact of Ukraine-Russia War on the World," News 18. (March 25, 2022).
  • "Growing influence of ISIS in India, North Africa and Saudi Arabia," Voice of America. (2016).
  • "Disproportionate incarceration and death penalties for Dalits and Muslims in India," Voice of America. (2016).
  • "Black lives matter and Dallas shooting of police officers," Voice of America. (2016).
  • "Geopolitical implications for Sheikh Nimar al-Nimr’s execution in Saudi Arabia," Voice of America. (July 2016).
  • "ISIS in India, and Turkey-Russia Conflict," Voice of America. (November 2015).
  • "Kashmir in United Nations, US-Iran relations, and ISIS in South Asia," Voice of America. (September 2015).
  • "India-Pakistan bilateral talk and tension," Voice of America. (August 2015).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Das, N.D. (Principal), Ahmed, W. (Other), "Smart Management of Waste Life-Cycles in Smart Cities," sponsored by Fulbright, Federal, Funded. (2022 - 2022).

    • Grant - Research

  • Ahmed, W. (Principal), "Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investments in Retail in India: The Case of Walmart," sponsored by Institute for Human Geography, NFP, Funded. (2015 - 2018).

Service

University Service

  • Committee Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee. (August 2021 - Present).
  • Committee Chair, Graduate Committee. (2018 - March 2021).
  • Conference-Related, Organizing Committee for the conference "Imperial Legacies of 1919". (2019).
  • Committee Member, curriculum committee. (2017 - 2019).
  • Member, Graduate Committee. (2015 - 2018).
  • Committee Member, honors and awards committee. (2012 - 2018).
  • Other (Member), PAC. (2013 - 2016).
  • Other, SACS committee. (2012 - 2015).

Public Service

  • Other (Resource person -- expert invited to make a prevention of benefits and problems of warehouses in residential areas), Rockhill Residents Against Warehouses -- Frisco, Texas. Frisco, TX. (October 20, 2022).

Professional Service

  • Other (Series coordinator -- equivalent to managing editor.), Brill's Radical Geography Book Series. Leiden, (2022 - Present).
  • Editor, Journal Editor, Human Geography. London, (February 2019 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, Institute for Human Geography Inc.. Denton, TX. (2019 - Present).
  • Editorial Review Board Member, ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies. (2016 - Present).
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Capitalism Nature Socialism. (2013 - Present).
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Review of Radical Political Economics. (2016 - 2021).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. (2019).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies. (2019).
  • Program Organizer, Panel in the Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers. Washington, DC, (2019).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Review of Radical Political Economics. (2019).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Review of Radical Political Economics. (2019).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Review of Radical Political Economics. (2019).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Review of Radical Political Economics. (2019).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Reviewer of Radical Political Economics. (2019).
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Human Geography: A New Radical Journal. (2008 - January 2019).
  • Chairperson, Development Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. (2014 - 2017).
  • Other (Vice-Chair), Development Geographies Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers. (2012 - 2015).
  • Other (Trustee), The Indian Institute of Geographical Studies. (2012 - 2014).