Faculties

Aseem Hasnain is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Fresno. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2016. His research engages religion, caste, environmentalism, nationalism, and diaspora, with a particular focus on South Asia. He is co-author of Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Practices and Visions for Environmental Futures (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) and has published in journals such as Social Movement Studies, Sociological Science, and Food and Foodways. His scholarship explores Shia identity, caste politics, food practices, and anti-caste mobilization, and he contributes regularly to public-facing platforms including The Conversation.