Ryan Conrad is an Adjunct Research Faculty member in the Women's and Gender Studies program at Carleton University. From 2019-2022 he was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in Cinema & Media Studies with Archive/Counter-Archive at York University in Toronto. From 2017-2019 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the AIDS Activist History Project housed in the Sociology and Anthropology department at Carleton University. He holds a PhD from the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Society and Culture at Concordia University and an MFA in interdisciplinary studio arts with a focus on film, video, and performance from the Maine College of Art .
Conrad is the co-founder of Against Equality, a digital archive and publishing collective based in the United States and Canada. He is the editor of the collective’s anthology series that are compiled together in Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion (2014). He has also contributed single-author and co-authored chapters to several anthologies including: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis (2021), Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Detention, Deportation, and Illegalization (2020), Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions (2016) The Gay Agenda (2014), and Queering Anarchism (2013). He is also the Chair of the Sexuality Studies Association.
His written work has appeared in scholarly and activist publications including: American Quarterly, Women Studies Quarterly, JumpCut, Auto/Biography Studies, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, e-flux, Aparté, QED: A Journal of LGBTQ Worldmaking, Upping the Anti, Scholar & Feminist, Socialism & Democracy, Drain, We Who Feel Differently, Little Joe, UltraViolet, In These Times, TruthOut, and Fifth Estate.
Experience
2020–present
Adjunct professor, Feminist Institute for Social Transformation, Carleton University
2019–2022
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Cinema & Media Studies , York University
2019–2021
Part-time Faculty, Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality, Concordia University
Education
2017
Concordia University, PhD
2010
Maine College of Art, MFA
Publications
2022
Generated Vulnerability: Male Sex Workers, Third-Party Platforms, & Data Security (Chapter), Queer Data
2022
Lessons Learned, Lessons Shared: Doing Research in Collaboration with Sex Workers and Sex Worker Organizations,, Facilitating Community Research for Social Change: Case Studies in Qualitative, Arts-Based and Visual Research
2021
Cable Access Queer: Revisiting Toronto Living With AIDS 1990-91, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media
2021
Looking for Gaëtan (Chapter), Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis
2020
O Canada: HIV Not Welcome Here (Chapter), Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Detention, Deportation, and Illegalization
2016
Revisiting AIDS and Its Metaphors, Drain
2014
That’s Right, We’re Here to Destroy Marriage! (Chapter), The Gay Agenda: Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice
2014
Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion,
2013
Gay Marriage and Queer Love (Chapter), Queering Anarchism
Grants and Contracts
2021
COVID-19, social safety nets, and sex work in the capital region
Role:
Co-Investigator
Funding Source:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2021
Viral Interventions: Artists, Communities and AIDS Activist Media
Role:
Collaborator
Funding Source:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2020
After-images and urban spaces: lesbian, gay and queer visible presence in Montreal (1950-1990)
Role:
Co-Investigator
Funding Source:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Professional Memberships
Chair, Sexuality Studies Association
Member, Film Studies Association of Canada
Member, Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities