Huda Hassan, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
- Canada Research Chair (Tier II)
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Sign in to editResearch areas: Dr. Hassan’s current research interests involve Black geographies; Black sonic and visual cultures; Digital geographies; Transnational feminisms; Media studies; Cultural studies; Diaspora studies; Technologies of colonialism and empire; Maritime labor; 1920s Harlem; Black cultural production; Journalism ethics; Race and ethnicity
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Dr. Hassan is a Media and Cultural Studies scholar from a Black feminist and diasporic framework. Dr. Hassan is a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Black Digital Geographies. She is a recipient of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a National Magazine Award, the Margrit Eichler Student Leadership Award, the University of Toronto’s New College Doctoral Fellowship, and the Vida Heydarian Gender Justice Award. As an award-winning writer, she has published essays in many publications, including New York Magazine, The Globe & Mail, Pitchfork, and Hazlitt. As a CBC arts columnist and frequent guest on CBC, she examines the connections between culture, power, and politics through a black feminist lens and is recognized as an essential voice in Canadian cultural criticism. Dr. Hassan’s first book, Children of the Snow, is slated for publication by McClelland and Stewart (Penguin Random House Canada) in 2028. It examines the connections among cities, gentrification, and grief through a transnational feminist lens. Her current research project, and second manuscript, Harlem Roses: African Seafarers of the Harlem Renaissance, interlaces archival research, theory, and fiction to explore African diasporic cultural and political influences during the Harlem Renaissance. As a cultural producer, Dr. Hassan has guest-appeared and story-produced in various documentary series, including Manufacturing the Enemy (2027), For the Culture (CBC, 2024), and Black Life: A Canadian History (CBC & CBC Gem, 2023). Her doctoral research and expertise were used to produce two episodes of Black Life, which focused on Black migrant histories that have shaped Canada, as well as on the arts, literary, and cultural production by Black Canadians.