Medicine Buffalo

Michael Rembis

Michael Rembis is an expert on disability history, including the history of madness. He is director of the Center for Disability Studies at UB and has worked with colleagues around the world to expand ...
KQED

5 Ways to Teach Disability History in Social Studies Class

A few years ago, curriculum specialist Richard Cairn showed a photo from the World War II era to two young men he was working with on a campaign to promote teaching disability history. The image shows ...
Los Angeles Times

UCLA has a new disability studies major — the first of its kind at any public university in California

UCLA junior Vivek Chotai doesn’t plan to pursue his school’s new disability studies major — the first of its kind at any public university in the state — or even take classes in it. Yet for the ...
business.rutgers

Professor brings passion and expertise to new disability studies minor

Rutgers University–New Brunswick launched a new minor in interdisciplinary disability studies, open to students in any Rutgers-New Brunswick major. Mason Ameri, Ph.D., associate professor of ...
The Hoya

Disability Studies Program Launches Major

Beginning in the fall semester, students in the Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences will have the option to declare a major in disability studies. The major will build on the program’s ...
insider.si.edu

Disability studies : enabling the humanities / edited by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Narrative prosthesis and the materiality of metaphor / David T. Mitchell -- Visible cripple (scars and other disfiguring displays included) / Mark Jeffreys -- Tender organs, narcissism, and identity ...
WDBJ

Roanoke College to offer new Disability Studies major and minor

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - After 182 years since its opening, students at Roanoke College will have the opportunity to pursue a degree in Disability Studies. Professors and students at Roanoke College have ...
The Hoya

Disability Studies: Curating An Inclusive Perspective

On Oct. 13, disability studies took center stage in Red Square at Ramping Up for Access, an event hosted by the Disability Cultural Initiative. Amy Kenny, inaugural director of the initiative, remarks ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Why Disability Studies Scholars Are Protesting a Prominent Textbook

O n a morning in February, Therí A. Pickens, an English professor and chair of the Africana program at Bates College, logged onto her email and saw a Google alert that said her work would be cited in ...
University of Delaware

Views of disability, deafness

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 ...
Miami University

Students make accessible masks for disability studies action project

Braille signs to direct people to elevators. Signs on accessible bathroom stalls asking people to not use them unless others aren’t available. In Miami University’s Introduction to Disability Studies ...