Fahad Ahmad

Fahad Ahmad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University. Prior to joining Toronto Metropolitan University, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. He obtained his PhD at the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University. His doctoral research, supported by SSHRC and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, comparatively examined the securitization of Muslim civil society organizations under national security regimes in Canada and the U.K. He is preparing a book manuscript based on his dissertation.

Fahad is an interdisciplinary scholar interested in racialized practices of national security policing; critical terrorism studies; systemic Islamophobia; race and nationalism; civil society and resistance; and the political economy of philanthropy. His scholarship is informed by 15 years of work experience in community and nonprofit organizations in Canada and the U.S.

His current projects include:

• “Voices of Palestine,” supported by The Muslim Fund’s Civic Innovation Grant, Mitacs Accelerate Program, and The Studio for Media Activism & Critical Thought (Fahad is PI)

• "Media bias in Reporting Hate Crimes against Muslims,” supported by Canada Heritage (Fahad is co-PI)

• "Newsroom Diversity Project: Muslim Journalists’ Experiences,” supported by a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (Fahad is co-applicant)

• “Connecting the dots: Investigating institutional philanthropy’s entanglement with right-wing populism in Canada,” supported from a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (Fahad is co-applicant) and the Faculty of Arts Democracy, Equity, and Justice Grant (Fahad was PI)

• “Justice philanthropy: An international research-to-practice network,” supported by a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (Fahad is collaborator)

Fahad is working on an edited book, Legacies of the Global War on Terror: Security and Racial Justice, emerging from a conference funded by a SSHRC Connection Grant (Fahad was co-applicant). He is the co-editor of the book series, Dimensions: Islam, Muslims, and Critical Thought (external link) , at University of Toronto Press. He is also a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Islamic Studies at University of Toronto where he advises on the Structural Islamophobia Research Lab (external link)  and a Research Associate at the Criminal Justice Centre for Advocacy, Research & Education (CJCARE) at University of Regina.