*In April 2022, the university announced our new name of Toronto Metropolitan University, which will be implemented in a phased approach. Learn more about our next chapter.*
Dr. Fahad Ahmad
Dr. Fahad Ahmad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is the co-editor of the book series, Dimensions: Islam, Muslims, and Critical Thought (external link) , at University of Toronto Press. He is a research affiliate at the Institute of Islamic Studies at University of Toronto where he advises on the Systemic Islamophobia Research Lab (external link) . 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 an interdisciplinary scholar interested in systemic Islamophobia; racialized practices of national security policing; civil society and resistance; and justice and community-oriented approaches to philanthropy. His scholarship is informed by 15 years of work experience in community and nonprofit organizations in Canada and the U.S.
TMCIS occupies space in the traditional and unceded territory of nations including the Anishnaabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and territory which is also now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. This territory is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, as well as the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas.
