Dr. Mohamed Haseeb is an Assistant Professor of History at PSMO College (Autonomous), Tirurangadi, Kerala. He earned his BA in 2009 and MA in 2012 from the PSMO College affiliated to the University of Calicut, Kerala. In July 2025, he was awarded a PhD from Mangalore University in Karnataka. Dr. Mohamed Haseeb qualified for the UGC NET examination and was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship by the Indian Council of Historical Research.
Dr. Haseeb’s research interests are primarily in the fields of Indian Ocean history, the history of migration and water, and the Mappila songs of Malabar. He presented research papers at several conferences, including at the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD), British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE), and Royal Musical Association (RMA).
As a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr. Haseeb is focusing on the Mappila songs in the archival collection of Dutch ethnomusicologist Arnold Adriaan Bake. During his fellowship, Dr. Haseeb aims to reanalyze, repatriate, and digitalize the archival recordings, re-record the songs with translations into English, and repatriate them back to the Mappila community of Malabar, where the memory of these old songs has been lost, keeping in mind the idea of “archives for the future”.