Introduction / Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen -- Part I. Concepts and questions. The perils and promises of disability biography / Kim E. Nielsen -- Disability history and Greco ...

Disability studies has gained prominence in recent years, transforming fields ranging from design to literary studies with insurgent approaches to access and representation. The newest volume of ...

Jaipreet Virdi was living and teaching in Canada, where she had grown up and earned her doctorate in the history of science, technology and medicine, when she found out about a job opening on the ...

Gann Academy students Gabe Rosen and Elianna Gerut are two of the curators of the "Disability History of the United States" exhibit at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation in Waltham, ...

Re-membering the past : reflections on disability histories / Susan Burch and Michael Rembis -- Part 1. Family, community, and daily life : part introduction and guiding questions. Disability, ...

Long Island is home to a series of legendary museums. From the Whaling Museum in Cold Spring Harbor to the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale to the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, the ...

In the introduction, the editors wrote, 'By its very nature, an Oxford Handbook offers legitimacy to disability history, an indication of the field's growing import.' A pioneering professor of ...

How much do you know about the history of disability? If the answer is “not a lot,” you’re not alone. The voices and experiences of disabled people are often nowhere to be found in history books and ...

Growing up, both of my parents had disabilities. In college, I developed one, too. At the time, I was forced to turn to online learning to receive the accommodations that I needed. Cordoned from the ...

When I was growing up, I lived in a community of me. I was the only other child with a disability that I knew. I'd never met an adult with a disability. There were no prominent people with ...