Aimi Hamraie

Aimi Hamraie

Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, & Society and American Studies at Vanderbilt University, Director, Critical Design Lab.

Aimi Hamraie (they/them) is Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, & Society and American Studies at Vanderbilt University, and director of the Critical Design Lab. Hamraie is author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) and host of the Contra* podcast on disability, design justice, and the lifeworld. Their current book project, Enlivened City, uses critical disability studies and the environmental humanities to examine the discourse of livability in New Urbanism.