Huda Hassan

Huda Hassan is a writer, journalist, and cultural critic. Her work examines diasporic cultural expressions, utilizing methods and tools from gender studies, cultural studies, black studies, and media studies. Her current research project is an archival study of African Muslims in 19th and 20th century New York, and broader examinations of the diasporic sensibilities shaping Harlem's Renaissance. She is the 2025-2026 recipient of New York Public Library's Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program for this research. 

Huda is a scholar of media and cultural studies. Drawing from black transnational feminisms, her dissertation, Ciyaal Baraf: Children of the Snow, was a media and cultural studies project in two parts: an intervention into the conjunctures shaping the criminalization(s) of Black Muslims in settler-state media, and an analysis of the counter-narratives and countercultures of Black Muslim artists through acts of artistic place-making, self-creation, and re-invention. 

Huda’s investigative reporting and cultural criticism appear in many publications, including New York Magazine, Globe and Mail, Pitchfork, Hazlitt, BuzzFeed, Fader, and i-D magazine. She is an arts columnist for CBC. Huda is also a radio, TV, and film story producer and researcher. Huda appears as a critic on radio and television, including CBC’s ‘Commotion,' ‘Metro Morning,’ and ‘The Current,’ alongside CTV’s ‘Culture Shock’ and ‘Pop Life’ shows. Huda obtained her Ph.D in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto in 2023, where she was a New College Doctoral Fellow.