Hasan Hameed is a historian of Islam, gender, and Persian literature in South Asia. Spanning over the longe duree, his research interests extend from the early modern period to the colonial and postcolonial eras. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Princeton University. Prior to coming to Princeton, Hasan studied at the University of Oxford. A Rhodes finalist, he received the prestigious Vicky Noon Pakistan Scholarship to study at Linacre College. Hasan's work has been supported by numerous external and internal grants, including the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) and the University Center of Human Values at Princeton. He has published in scholarly journals such as Modern Intellectual History, and presented his research at academic conferences at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley, among others. The research page has more on his scholarly works.

Alongside his research, Hasan is passionate about teaching. From humid and decapitated classrooms in the poorest neighbourhoods of Karachi to air-conditioned and apple-display-enabled classrooms in Princeton, Hasan has taught hundreds of students from different racial, class, and gender backgrounds. Subjects taught include specialized topics such as Gender & Sexuality in Islam to more general modules on college-level writing and self-development. Whether lecturing in a hall of 50 students or providing one-on-one tutoring, his teaching is guided by a core teaching philosophy: cultivating critical and emphatetic thinkers. Please contact him for a full statement of teaching philosophy; refer to the teaching page for some of his previous experience.

Hasan also has a strong commitment to public scholarship outside of formal teaching. As a fellow for the Center of Culture, Society and Religion (CCSR) at Princeton, he has organised events, authored public-facing essays, and helped produce videos that make dense academic work accessible to a broader audience. These include a public conversation on Islam and race, a youtube post on simple believers in the medieval Christian world, and an essay on the history of philosophy in the Muslim world. He has also lectured extensively at different Muslim Students Associations (MSAs), mosques, and community centres across the US, the UK and Pakistan. Within the university, Hasan has engaged with student groups across the political spectrum. One spring, for instance, he conducted, within the same week, a session with the feminist society at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) on Muslim masculinity and another session with the LUMS religious society on interrogating selfhood in popular Hollywood movies. Such engagements reflect his belief that knowledge in an inclusive society is constructed not by a clash of ideas but in their coming together into mutual dialogue. As a teacher and public intellectual, Hasan hopes to facilitate such conversations within and outside the academy. The service page has more on his public engagements.