Hasan (He/Him) is a first-year PhD student and Chancellor’s Fellow. He is broadly interested in topics of gender, masculinity, sexuality, and the social production of space, situating these issues within the context of racial modernity. Hasan utilizes mixed-methods approaches, with particular inclinations towards ethnography and text analysis in R-Studio.

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. "A Critique of Interracialism: The White Ga(y)ze and Racial Desire" challenges the idea that sexual desire is opaque and immutable, considering the political, ideological and social antecedents to the formation of desire. He employs interviews and an ethnographic analysis of Queer leisure spaces to argue that a racialized regime of desire underpins romantic relationships under racial modernity and shapes the (un)desire of Black masculinity.

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.