Head and shoulders colour photo of Michael Orsini. He is wearing glasses and a collared light blue shirt and navy blue sweater and smiling at the camera.

Head and shoulders colour photo of Michael Orsini. He is wearing glasses and a collared light blue shirt and navy blue sweater and smiling at the camera.

Michael Orsini

Michael Orsini is Full Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa and currently Vice-Dean, Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences. His most recently published book is Seeing Red: HIV/AIDS and Public Policy in Canada, edited by Suzanne Hindmarch, Michael Orsini and Marilou Gagnon, University of Toronto Press. He is the co-editor (with Christine Kelly) of Mobilizing Metaphor: Art, Culture and Disability Activism in Canada (UBC Press, 2016). He is currently completing a SSHRC project on the role of emotions and stigma in a range of contested policy fields and a CIHR-funded study on the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure in Canada.