SC State communications professor to provide Election Day analysis worldwide
Rahman, a professor of journalism/communications in SC State’s Department of English and Communications, will address about 300 million Bengali-speaking viewers all over the world via TBN24TV-New York.
He has worked for decades with Voice of America, National Public Radio, the British Broadcasting Corporation, and other global outlets, providing political and social coverage and analysis. His contributions have included U.S. election coverage for Bangali language speakers and frequent commentary on the state of media ethics.
Before coming to the United States, Rahman was a television producer in his South Asian country of origin, Bangladesh. Migrating to North America, he earned his doctorate in communications and media management from Simon Fraser University Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1987.
He taught a year at Louisiana State University before landing at Alcorn State University, a historically black institution in Lorman, Mississippi. After 17 years at Alcorn, Rahman arrived in 2005 at SC State and went on to lead the launch of the university’s Communications Program.
In 2023, Rahman was elected as a board member of the South Carolina Fulbright Association for another three-year term.
As a Fulbright Specialist Fellow, Rahman helped develop the Department of Radio, TV and Film Studies at Dhaka University in Bangladesh. He visited Dhaka University twice in 2013 and 2014 for six weeks each year to help the program with its goals, course curriculum, TV studio plan, and faculty/student recruitment.
The SC State Department of English and Communications is a unit of the College of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences.