Name: Abdul Hamid Hatsaandh
Email: hamid.hatsaandh@nyu.edu
Program: International Education
Research Interests: Students resistance, educational technology in resources constrained contexts, assessments in education, international development
Principal Advisor(s): Dana Burde (NYU)
Research Description/Bio: Abdul Hamid Hatsaandh is a second-year PhD student in the International Education program at NYU Steinhardt. He is interested in everyday forms of resistance by students with a focus on Afghan girls' resistance against the Taliban's ban on girls' education in Afghanistan. Also, he explores the potential education technology possesses in bringing access to good quality education in areas affected by conflict and natural disasters. NYU and Scholars at Risk collaborated on his and his family's evacuation from Afghanistan in 2022.
Before starting PhD at NYU, Abdul Hamid worked with UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring (GEM) team and authored the Afghanistan Background Study report for UNESCO's South Asia Report (2022), Non-State Actors in Education: Who Chooses, Who Loses?. Prior to that, he worked as reforms planning advisor at Afghanistan's Technical and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TVET-A), education research manager with USAID's Afghan Children Read (ACR) project in Afghanistan, and research officer with NYU's Assessment of Learning Outcomes and Social Effects of Community-Based Education in Afghanistan (ALSE). In total, he has over 11 years of experience in education and research.
Abdul Hamid has completed his masters degree in International Education Policy from Harvard University through the Fulbright program and bachelors in business administration from University of Pune, India, through the Indian council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) program.