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Danielle Landry

Danielle Landry

Research Associate, CERC Health Equity and Community Wellbeing; Contract Lecturer, School of Disability Studies
EducationMA, PhD (ABD), York University
OfficeDCC-524, Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex
Areas of ExpertiseMad studies; disability studies; sociology of health and illness; work and labour studies; social determinants of health; institutional ethnography

Danielle’s research, rooted in local communities and activist histories, brings a disability studies lens to understanding how social determinants of health impact health equity and community wellbeing. Specializing in feminist theories and methodologies, notably institutional ethnography and feminist political economy, Danielle is a sociologist with over 10 years of experience doing community-engaged research.  

Her SSHRC-funded doctoral research focuses on the activist knowledge-practices of psychiatric consumer/survivor businesses in southwestern Ontario. In partnership with Madness Canada (external link)  and with funding support from the Hewton-Griffin archival research award, Danielle is building a digital archive of the advocacy history of these small businesses, founded and run primarily by people with mental health histories. 

Danielle has taught courses in Mad Studies and Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University since 2014 and she developed the first course in Disability Studies at Centennial College in 2019. She publishes frequently in a range of formats, including peer-reviewed journals (external link) , book chapters and more publicly accessible outputs, such as blog posts, magazine  articles, and research reports. In 2020, she received the Wilhelm Cohnstaedt Social Justice Award from York University and in 2019, she received the Dean’s Teaching Award (FCS) at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Teaching

  • DST 500: A History of Madness
  • DST 504: Mad People’s History
  • DST 613: Strategies for Community Building

  • Landry, D. (2024). A mad-positive children’s book list. Studies in Social Justice, 18(1), 66-75. Special issue on Activism, Resistance, and Presence: Exploring Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies in Canada. DOI: 10.26522/ssj.v18i1.4456
  • Landry, D. (2023). Mad student organizing and the growth of Mad Studies in Canada. Research Papers in Education, 38(5), 763-782. Special issue on Sociological Perspectives on the Mental Health and Wellbeing Agenda in Education. DOI: 10.1080/02671522.2023.2219677
  • Thomas, M. P., Condratto, S., Landry, D. & Steedman, M. (2020). Flexibility for Who? Working Time, the Ontario Employment Standards Act, and the Experiences of Workers in Low-Wage and Precarious Jobs. Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, 75(1), 78-100.
  • Snyder, S., Pitt, K. A., Shanouda, F., Voronka, J., Reid, J. & Landry, D. (2019). Unlearning Through Mad Studies: Disruptive Pedagogical Praxis. Curriculum Inquiry, 49(4). DOI: 10.1080/03626784.2019.1664254.
  • Reid, J., Snyder, S., Voronka, J., Landry, D. & Church, K. (2019). Mobilizing Mad Art in the Neoliberal University: Resisting Regulatory Efforts by Inscribing Art as Political Practice. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, 13(3). DOI: 10.3828/jlcds.2019.20
  • Landry, D. (2017). Psychiatric survivor-led research in Canada: ‘Talking’ recovery, resisting psychiatry, and reclaiming madness. Disability & Society, 32(9). DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2017.1322499
  • Landry, D. (2017). Employability as ideological training: Sheltered workshops, disablement, and labour in capitalism. In M. P. Thomas, J. House, and L. March (eds.) Symposium Proceedings: GLRC’s Graduate Student Symposium 2016. Toronto: Global Labour Research Centre, York University.  (PDF file) http://glrc.apps01.yorku.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Symposium-Proceedings-2016.pdf (external link) 
  • Landry, D. & Church, K. (2016). Teaching (like) crazy in a mad positive school: Exploring the charms of recursion. In J. Russo & A. Sweeney (Eds.), Searching for a rose garden: Challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies (172-182). Monmouth, UK: PCCS Books.
  • Church, K., Landry, D., Frazee, C., Ignagni, E., Mitchell, C., Panitch, M., Patterson, J., Phillips, S., Poirier, T., Yoshida, K. & Voronka, J.  (2016). Exhibiting activist disability history in Canada: Out from Under as a case study of social movement learning.  Studies in the Education of Adults, 48(1), 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/02660830.2016.1219479.
  • Costa, L., MacFarlane, B., Landry, D., Voronka, J., Reid, J., Reville, D., & Church, K. (2012). Recovering our Stories: A Small Act of Resistance. Studies in Social Justice, 6(1), 85-101. https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/article/view/1070 (external link, opens in new window) 

  • Hewton-Griffin Archival Research Award, 2024
  • Wilhelm Cohnstaedt Social Justice Award, 2020
  • Dean’s Teaching Award, 2019
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2019
  • Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship, SSHRC, 2015-2018
  • St. George’s Society of Toronto Endowment, 2013