Dr. Fahad Ahmad is a community engaged scholar whose research intersects structural Islamophobia, the racialized practices of national security policing, and civil society and resistance. Dr. Ahmad holds a Ph.D. from the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University. His doctoral research was supported by SSHRC’s Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation’s Doctoral Scholarship. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies of the University of Toronto.
Dr. Ahmad’s work has been recognized with numerous grants and scholarships (for example he was the recipient of Association for Research on Non-profit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), Graduate Diversity Scholars and Leaders Award (2020-2021) and Emerging Scholar Award (2019). His work was published in prestigious peer reviewed Canadian and international criminology journals, including the British Journal of Criminology, Crime, Law and Social Change, Security & Surveillance, and Critical Studies on Terrorism. In addition, he has a forthcoming book manuscript entitled, Counter-radicalization, Islamophobia, and civil society contestations: The cases of Canada and the U.K., to be published by the McGill Queens University Press."
“I am thrilled to be joining the Department of Criminology at TMU. I am particularly inspired by the important community-centred, critical teaching and scholarship that my colleagues are engaged in. I look forward to being part of such a vibrant community of scholars."