Hasan Hameed is a historian of Islam, gender, and Persian literature in South Asia. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Princeton University. Prior to coming to Princeton, Hasan earned a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford, where he worked on Muslim political thought. He earned his undergraduate degree in liberal arts from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in Karachi.
Hasan is passionate about communicating scholarly research to public audiences. Drawing on his dissertation research, he has conducted workshops on Gender & Sexuality in Islam for the Princeton Religious Literacy Program and for the Muslim Life Program at the University of Pennsylvania. As a fellow for the Center of Culture, Society and Religion (CCSR) at Princeton, he has organised events, authored essays, and helped produce videos that make academic works relevant to a broader audience. Throughout his academic career, Hasan has engaged with various campus groups, for instance, conducting a session with the feminist society at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) on Muslim masculinity, and another session with the religious society at LUMS on interrogating selfhood in popular Hollywood movies. He has also lectured extensively at different Muslim Students Associations (MSAs), mosques, and community centres across the US, the UK, and Pakistan. In his free time, Hasan loves travelling with his wife and daughter to see parks, share Urdu and Persian poetry, and build community over homemade food.
