He is currently on sabbatical and is pursuing his Ph.D. degree at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, with a focus on political economy, environmental sociology, and social theory. Despite his fascination with the three classics — Marx, Weber, and Durkheim — his research on the political economy of industrial disasters in peripheral countries is informed by a variety of Marxian analyses in sociology. He completed degrees in sociology from Ohio University (MA) and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (B.S.S and M.S.S).