“I reject the traditional ‘ivory tower’ approach to research, which can sometimes treat communities as mere data sources or reduce complex lived experiences to statistics. It’s important to me that women with disabilities will be equal partners in this research. Because their expertise comes from survival,” – Musabber Ali Chisty
IBS Graduate Research Assistant and PhD Student in Sociology, Musabber Ali Chisty, received the CU Engage Graduate Fellowship in Community-Based Research this May. He will begin the fellowship in the 2025-26 academic year to research women with disabilities in the coastal communities of Bangladesh. Anna Canny, writer for the Natural Hazards Center, shares more about Chisty’s research in a recent Center News story: