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Areas of Interest<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Critical disability studies; science and technology studies; political economy; social movement studies; social and political theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

杏吧原创<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kelly Fritsch is Canada Research Chair in Disability, Health, and Social Justice and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at 杏吧原创 University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her research, teaching, and community contributions focus on the social conditions that render some lives and lifeworlds less livable, centring how practices of collective action, solidarity, and accessibility can confront the disabling, debilitating, and often deadly social relations that undermine livability. To this end, Fritsch leads and supports projects that nurture disability culture, politics, and community, drawing on the friction, ingenuity, and world-building force of social justice practices that reimagine how we care for, support, and show up for one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is the co-author of We Move Together<\/em><\/a> (2021), an award-winning children\u2019s book about ableism, accessibility, and disability culture, and co-editor of Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada<\/em><\/a> (2022) and Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle<\/em><\/a> (2016). Her most recent book, Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival<\/em><\/a> (2026), charts a politics of solidarity with which to build a collective commitment to, and responsibility for, one another\u2019s flourishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fritsch also serves as co-editor of the UBC Press Disability Culture and Politics<\/a> series and sits on the editorial board of Disability Studies Quarterly<\/em><\/a>. Fritsch is cross appointed to the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation and the Institute of Political Economy and is Co-Chair of the 杏吧原创 Disability and Access Studies Hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fritsch completed her Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought at York University and was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Women & Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Research Projects<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Principal Investigator, SSHRC Insight Grant, Mapping the Development and Transformative Impact of Disability Justice in Canada<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-Principal Investigator, New Frontiers in Research Fund \u2013 Exploration, Frictions of Futurity and Cure in Transplant Medicine: Re-Thinking Central Challenges Through Feminist\/Crip Science and Technology Studies<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Principal Investigator, SSHRC Knowledge Mobilization Grant, A Broken Politics for a Disabled World<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collaborator, SSHRC Insight Grant, Transformative Encounters: Gender and Sexuality Pedagogies in Canada<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select Publications<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Books<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Fritsch, Kelly and Anne McGuire. Forthcoming. A Broken Politics for a Disabled World. <\/em>University of Minnesota Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fritsch, Kelly, Jeffrey Monaghan, and Emily van der Meulen, eds. 2022. Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada<\/em><\/a>. <\/em>Vancouver: UBC Press. 334 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fritsch, Kelly, Anne McGuire, and Eduardo Trejos. 2021. We Move Together<\/em><\/a>. Chico, CA: AK Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fritsch, Kelly, Clare O\u2019Connor, and AK Thompson, eds. 2016. Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle<\/em><\/a>. <\/em>Chico, CA: AK Press. 576 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited Journal Issues<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Wechuli, Yvonne, Marie Sepulchre, and Kelly Fritsch, eds. Forthcoming. \u201cAffecting, Emoting, and Feeling Disability: Entanglements at the intersection of Disability Studies and the Sociology of Emotion.\u201d Special issue of Frontiers in Sociology.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fritsch, Kelly, Suze Berkhout, and Alexandra Frankel, eds. 2024. \u201cFrictions of Futurity in Transplant Medicine.<\/a>\u201d Special issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. <\/em>10(2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berkhout, Suze, Kelly Fritsch, and Chloe Wong-Mersereau, eds. 2023. \u201cCurative Tensions, Artistic Re-imaginings, and Frictions of Temporality in Transplantation.<\/a>\u201d Special issue of Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts, and Humanities<\/em>. 17(2): 1-138.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brady, Miranda, Kelly Fritsch, Margaret Janse Van Rensburg, and Kennedy Ryan, eds. 2022. \u201cAutism_Media_Social Justice<\/a>.\u201d Special issue of Studies in Social Justice. <\/em>16(2): 300-533.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fritsch, Kelly, Aimi Hamraie, Mara Mills, and David Serlin, eds. 2019. \u201cCrip Technoscience<\/a>.\u201d Special issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience.<\/em> 5(1):1-269.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fritsch, Kelly, and Anne McGuire, eds. 2018. \u201cQueer\/Crip Contagions<\/a>.\u201d Special issue of Feminist Formations <\/em>30(1): vii-247.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

simpkins, reese, and Kelly Fritsch, eds. 2017. \u201cThe Somatechnics of Sexuality in Canada<\/a>.\u201d Special issue of Somatechnics <\/em>7(2): 171-325.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Fritsch, Kelly. 2024. \u201cDesiring disability in our learning communities: fostering a crip culture of access.\u201d In Reading the Room: Lesson on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom<\/em><\/a>, edited by Natalie Kouri-Towe, 45-60. Montreal: Concordia University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linton, Megan, and Kelly Fritsch. 2024. \u201cCripistemologies of drug use against transinstitutional carceral ableism.<\/a>\u201d Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. <\/em>18(2): 211-227.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frankel, Alexandra, Eva-Marie Stern, Kelly Fritsch, and Suze Berkhout. 2024. \u201cSurface and Depth in Sensory Ethnography: Casting Bodied Experience in an Arts-Based Interviewing Practice<\/a>.\u201d International Journal of Qualitative Methods. <\/em>23: 1-11. DOI: 10.1177\/16094069241270460<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berkhout, Suze, Kelly Fritsch, Brian Keeley, and Bibo Keeley. 2024. \u201cTroubling Transplant Temporality through Crip Technoscience and a Sensory Aesthetics of Time, Machine, and Health.<\/a>\u201d Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. <\/em>10(2): 1-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wong-Mersereau, Chloe, Fraser Best, Mary Bunch, Alexandra Frankel, Brad Necyk, Lia Tarachansky, Shabnam Sukhdev, Kelly Fritsch, and Suze Berkhout. 2023. \u201cLayered Methodologies: Innovating Qualitative Research in Liver Transplantation Through Sensory Ethnography, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Digital Storytelling<\/a>.\u201d Journal of Liver Transplantation. <\/em>12:100183.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berkhout, Suze, Kelly Fritsch, Alexandra Vieux Frankel, and Kathleen Sheehan. 2022. \u201cObligation and the \u2018Gift of Life\u2019: Understanding Frictions Surrounding Advance Care Planning and Goals of Care Discussions in Liver Transplant Settings<\/a>.\u201d Journal of<\/em> Liver Transplantation. <\/em>7 (July-September): 1-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fritsch, Kelly and Aimi Hamraie. 2023. \u201cFour Commitments of Crip Technoscience.\u201d In After Universal Design: The Disability Design Revolution<\/em>,<\/a> edited by Elizabeth Guffey, 17-34. New York: Bloomsbury. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fritsch, Kelly. 2023. \u201cCrip Theory.\u201d In More Posthuman Glossary<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>edited by Rosi Braidotti and Emily Jones, 25-28. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banbury, Tamara and Kelly Fritsch. 2022. \u201c\u2018So, you wanna live forever?\u2019 Representations of disability, gender, and technology in Cyberpunk 2077<\/em>.\u201d In Gender, Sex, and Tech!: An Intersectional Feminist Guide<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>edited by Jill Fellows and Lisa Smith, 230-245. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fritsch, Kelly, Jeffrey Monaghan, and Emily van der Meulen. 2022. \u201cResisting the Criminalization of Disability: Cripping Disability Injustice Toward Accessible Decarceral Futures.\u201d <\/strong>In Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>edited by Kelly Fritsch, Jeffrey Monaghan and Emily van der Meulen, 3-46.Vancouver: UBC Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamraie, Aimi and Kelly Fritsch. 2019. \u201cCrip Technoscience Manifesto<\/a>.\u201d Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. <\/em>5(1): 1-33.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select Public Research Contributions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Desai, Saima, Kelly Fritsch, Yasmine Gray, Sarah Jama, Sophie Jean, Rachel Jobson, Megan Linton, Ahona Mehdi, Amani Omar, Destiny Pitters, and Xue, eds. 2022. \u201cDisability Justice<\/a>.\u201d Briarpatch<\/em> 51 (5): 1-56.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fritsch, Kelly and Fady Shanouda. 2022. \u201cWarehousing disabled people in long-term care homes needs to stop. Instead, nationalize home care<\/a>.\u201d January 12. The Conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select Honours and Awards<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2023, Research Achievement Award, 杏吧原创 University
2022, Harriet McBryde Johnson Award for Nonfiction, Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
2022, Best Educational Children\u2019s Picture Book, International Latino Book Awards
2020, Early Career Research Award, 杏吧原创 University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Courses<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • SOCI 5401 Critical Disability Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • SOCI 5005 Recurring Debates in Social Theory<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • SOCI 3006 Thinking the Social: Theories and Approaches<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • SOCI 3060 Critical Disability Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • SOCI 3430 Collective Action and Social Movements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30836,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Kelly","cu_people_last_name":"Fritsch","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[39],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-6059","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-sociology-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor","cu_people_degree":"PhD (York)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"KellyFritsch@cunet.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"613-520-2600","cu_people_phone_ext":"2617","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/6059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/6059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33347,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/6059\/revisions\/33347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}