Rate My Professor Samid Suliman

Dr. Samid Suliman is a Senior Lecturer in Migration and Security in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science within the Arts, Education and Law group at Griffith University. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Queensland in 2014. In addition to his academic role, he serves as Director, International for the Arts, Education and Law group. Suliman's research centers on the intersections of migration, mobility, development, security, and climate change. His work explores critical themes such as the kinetic politics of migration and development, Indigenous immobilities in the Anthropocene, multispecies mobility justice, and geopolitical dimensions of territorialisation. He is affiliated with the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research and contributes to projects examining human infrastructure impacts on avian mobilities along the East-Asian Australasian Flyway, development-induced displacement in Manipur, India, Pacific regionalism through contemporary art spaces, aesthetic approaches to border politics, and alternative governance models for climate mobility in the Pacific region.

Suliman's scholarly output includes numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Key publications feature 'Indigenous (im)mobilities in the Anthropocene' (2019, co-authored with Carol Farbotko, Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Karen E. McNamara, Faye Thornton, and others), which has garnered 140 citations; 'Geopolitics, (Re)territorialisation, and China’s Patriotic Tourism in the South China Sea' (2023, with Y. Huang, 43 citations); 'Global development and precarity: A critical political analysis' (2019, with H. Weber, 39 citations); 'Migration and development after 2015' (2017, 39 citations); 'Fale Pili: a Tuvaluan perspective on mobility justice' (2024, with Taukiei Kitara and Carol Farbotko); and 'Mobilising a theory of kinetic politics' (2018). His research has received over 300 citations across platforms like Google Scholar and ResearchGate, reflecting influence in political theory, mobilities studies, and climate migration scholarship. Suliman engages in public lectures and panels on intercultural communication, climate action, and border politics.