Richard Fadok

Richard Fadok is an anthropologist of design and a multispecies ethnographer, and an assistant professor of anthropology at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has held postdoctoral fellowships at University of Pennsylvania and University of Rochester. His research focuses on the environmental politics of architecture in North America. He is currently working on two book projects, one on biomimicry and a second on bird-safe design. His writing has appeared in Domus; Teaching and Learning Anthropology; Domus; The Multispecies Lexicon; Nature Remade: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds; The Conversation; and Platypus. In conjunction with his scholarship, he runs a community initiative to study and prevent bird-window collisions in Rochester, NY, called Smash the Crash.