Ahmar Mahboob

Dr Ahmar Mahboob earned his PhD at Indiana University, Bloomington, in 2003. The title of his dissertation was: Status of nonnative English speakers as ESL teachers in the United States. Ahmar is keenly interested in the application of language sciences to developmental issues. His primary research interest is on an examination of policies, practices, and implications of language variation in local and global contexts. In pursuing this goal, Ahmar draws from and contributes to a range of linguistics and applied linguistics traditions, theories, and methodologies.

In 2019, Dr Mahboob was named as Australia's Research Field Leader: English Language and Literature in The Australian’s Research magazine.

Education

• Indiana University Bloomington
  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Linguistics & TESOL
• University of Sydney
  Master's Degree, Higher Education
• Indiana University Bloomington
  Master's Degree, Applied Linguistics & TESOL
• Karachi University
  BA (Hons) & MA, English (Literature & Linguistics)

Awards and honours

• 2012, Fellow of the National Talent Pool; President's Programme for Highly Qualified Overseas Pakistanis, Government of Pakistan
• 2006, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Award, University of Sydney
• 2005, Teaching Initiative Award, University of Sydney
• 2005, Fellow of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities
• 2004, ECU Research and Creativity Award
• 2002, 'Distinguished President Award' INTESOL, Indianapolis

Publications

Books

• Dreyfus, S., Humphrey, S., Mahboob, A., Martin, J. (2016). Genre Pedagogy in Higher Education: The SLATE Project. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Li, E., Mahboob, A. (2012). English Today: Forms, Functions, and Uses. Hong Kong: Pearson Education.