Hasan (He/Him) is a PhD student and Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests lie in issues of racial modernity, Black masculinities and gender, and the sociology of sexuality, situated within an interdisciplinary framing that includes Du Boisian Sociology, Black Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Hasan has two ongoing projects: "Song and Sermon: Constructing Sacred Masculinity" is concerned with how Black masculinity is discursively formulated through gospel music and church sermons. Hasan's current project and MA thesis concerns the social antecedents to the formation of sexual desire, investigating how contemporary sexual practices, desires, and representations of Black sexuality have been shaped by the colonial encounter and its afterlives—with special attention to how these factors shape the desire, undesire, consumption, and lived experience of Black masculinities.

His previous research projects have investigated how the prison system has produced racialized constructions of Black criminality, and how Black masculinity and subjectivity is constructed within the gym space. In a manuscript currently under review, Hasan works alongside Dr. Hye Ryeon Jang, assistant professor of Political Science at Morehouse College, using quantitative text analysis to examine how Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in constructed in Xi Jinping’s written works.

Before beginning his studies at Berkeley, Hasan graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Political Science and in Sociology from Morehouse College in 2024. He was awarded top scholar in both disciplines.

Publications Under Review:
Henry, Hasan. 2025. “’Dap Me Up’: Theorizing Black Masculinities and Identity in the Gym Space.” Under Review.
Henry, Michael., Hye Ryeon Jang. 2025. “Reading Between the Lines: Xi’s China Dream and the Future of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.” Under Review.