Dr. Fady Shanouda ( He/Him )
Assistant Professor
- PhD, Public Health Sciences (University of Toronto); MA, Critical Disability Studies (York University); BA Hons, Anthropology and Law & Society (York University)
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- 613-520-6645
Dr. Fady Shanouda is a disability justice scholar whose interdisciplinary work intersects Disability, Mad, and Fat Studies. His research critically examines how human and non-human assemblages come to constitute certain bodyminds as problems.
In Fat Studies, Dr. Shanouda investigates how fatness is constructed, regulated, and resisted across cultural, medical, and built environments. His work addresses how public discourse, institutional policy, and design practices create conditions of exclusion for fat people, while also documenting and amplifying fat activism and creative resistance. This scholarship extends into material and spatial contexts through Fat Chair, a SSHRC Insight Development Grant project. Fat Chair combines archival research, ethnographic interviews, and experimental design methods to examine the politics of public seating and to develop “thickened” design standards that challenge modernist design and better accommodate fat bodies.
Dr. Shanouda serves as Undergraduate and Graduate Advisor in the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton, and as Co-Editor of the Disability Culture and Politics Series at UBC Press. Additionally, he created and hosts the podcast Disability Saves the World, which convenes scholars, artists, and activists to reimagine crip/mad/fat thought and activism as powerful tools for transformation.
In the classroom, Dr. Shanouda teaches and advises students across both undergraduate and graduate levels, offering courses such as Introduction to Disability Studies (DBST 2001), Mad Studies (DBST 3002), and Fat Studies (WGST 3812).
Dr. Shanouda’s scholarship is grounded in his diverse positionality and lived experiences. He carries these positionalities into his work, situated on the traditional and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinàbeg Nation.