Individual Award

Salah Hassan, Ph.D., is the director of Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities program. He is an associate professor in the Department of English and a core faculty member in the Muslim Studies Program both in the College of Arts and Letters. He teaches courses that focus on the Middle East, anticolonialism and culture, literatures of empire and Arab and Muslim American cultural production.

Hassan has been an active advocate for campus initiatives, programs and units that promote diversity, equity and inclusion. He is also the founder of the Muslim Subjects website and blog and coordinator of the following projects on that site: “Migrations of Islam,” “American Halal” and “Journal/Islam.” He coproduced the short documentary film “Death of an Imam,” which explores the 2009 shooting of a Black Muslim imam in Dearborn, Michigan, and the way the incident was reported in the media. Hassan has been a member of multiple research projects that promote DEI values. For instance, in 2013, he was the principal investigator and project coordinator for “Crossroads of American Literature: A Collaboration between Iraqi and US Scholars,” which was funded by the Institute for International Education, or IIE, as part of the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program for Iraq.