Biography
Michael Orsini is Professor cross-appointed to the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies and the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa (Canada). He is interested in approaches to policy that center the perspectives of people marginalized from policy making, and has done research on autism, HIV/AIDS, fat activism, and on the link between art and disability experience. Michael’s work has been published in several academic journals, including Global Public Health, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Sociology of Health and Illness, Social Policy and Administration, Policy and Politics, Social Science and Medicine, and Critical Policy Studies. He has co-edited a number of academic books, including Dispatches from Disabled Country (UBC Press) Seeing Red: HIV/AIDS and Public Policy in Canada (University of Toronto Press), The Handbook of Critical Policy Studies (Edward Elgar), Mobilizing Metaphor: Art, Culture and Disability Activism in Canada (UBC Press), Worlds of Autism: Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference (University of Minnesota Press), and Critical Policy Studies (UBC Press). He is currently completing SSHRC-funded research on the role of ableism in social movements in Canada, focusing on feminist, environmental and animal rights movements.
