| Year Graduated | 1988 |
| Department Affiliation | Folklore |
| Dissertation | Lore of the traditional Malam: material culture of literacy and ethnography of writing among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria |
| Current Position | Goldwin Smith Professor of African and African Diaspora Art History and Visual Culture in Africana Studies and Research Center, and Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, and Director of the Institute for Comparative Modernities (ICM) Cornell University |
| Relevant Links | https://africana.cornell.edu/salah-m-hassan |