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 currently preparing a book manuscript based on his dissertation. 

Fahad is an interdisciplinary scholar interested in critical terrorism/radicalization studies; racialized practices of national security policing; systemic Islamophobia; race and nationalism; civil society and resistance; and justice-oriented approaches to the study of philanthropy. His scholarship is informed by 15 years of work experience in community and nonprofit organizations in Canada and the U.S. He is working on the project, “Connecting the dots: Investigating institutional philanthropy’s entanglement with right-wing populism in Canada,” which got support by grants from SSHRC IDG (where he is co-applicant) and the Faculty of Arts Democracy, Equity, and Justice Grant (where he is PI). He is a collaborator on the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant project, “Justice philanthropy: An international research-to-practice network.” He is working on an edited book emerging from a conference funded by the SSHRC Connection Grant, "Legacies of the Global War on Terror: Security and Racial Justice” (where he 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 affiliated, as chair of the academic board, with the Structural Islamophobia Research Lab (external link)  at the Institute of Islamic Studies at University of Toronto.