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Maria Cristina Galmarini discusses her latest book, Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War.
Episode Image: Cover of Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War by Maria Cristina Galmarini. The cover features an image of members of the World Council’s Executive Committee visiting institutions of the blind in Moscow. Source: TsM VOS, OF 4852/1-4. Printed with permission of KSRK VOS, Moscow. The image depicts a man guiding the fingers of another man to help him feel the details of a small object. In front of them, a woman with very thick glasses sits at a workstation and assembles objects.Download mp3 file here.
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About Our GuestMaria Cristina Galmarini is Associate Professor of History and Global Studies at William & Mary. Galmarini received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. Her teaching interests include Russian and post-Soviet History, Stalinism, human rights, and cultural history of the Cold War. She specializes in Soviet and modern European history, with a particular focus on the history of disability and social rights. Her recent book is Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War. She also is the author of The Right to Be Helped: Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order, published in 2017 by Northern Illinois University Press. It explores the sense of entitlement to social rights among marginalized groups in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1950.
Miriam Rich discusses her upcoming book, Monstrous Conceptions: Race, Reproduction, and Medical Science in America, 1830-1930.
Episode Image: Cover of A Descriptive Catalogue of the Monstrosities in the Cabinet of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, published 1848. On the light brown background are the cursive red words “Jackson (J.B.S.),” a sticker with a library call number, and a blue stamp that reads “Surgeon Gen’l’s Office Library.” Image URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_descriptive_catalogue_of_the_monstrosities_in_the_cabinet_of_the_Boston_Society_for_Medical_Improvement_(IA_06730070R.nlm.nih.gov).pdf.Download mp3 file here.
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About Our GuestMiriam Rich, PhD is a historian and the James Wade Rockwell Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Her scholarship explores the history of reproduction, concepts of disability and race, and health inequities in the United States. Rich’s first book, Monstrous Conceptions, is under contract with Columbia University Press. Her interdisciplinary writing appears in The Bulletin of the History of Medicine, The American Journal of Bioethics, Isis, The Lancet, Gender & History, New Genetics and Society, and Revista Ciência & Saúde Coletiva.
Tulika Singh discusses her work on depictions of embodiment and disorder in early Indian medical texts.
Episode Image: This image, which has an ink inscription at the bottom stating “Perforating the Eye with a Lancet in the Left Hand,” is a pencil drawing on white paper depicting the execution of one of the procedures for couching treatment of cataracts, as observed by the surgeon Peter Breton in Calcutta in 1826. The setting for the surgery is outside, and the individuals depicted are a patient, an oculist, and an assistant, all adult males dressed in traditional Indian attire. The patient is sitting close to the ground; the oculist, wearing spectacles, is sitting in front of the patient on a slightly higher footstool, using a lancet with the left hand for the patient’s right eye, with the right hand placed on the patient’s head; and the assistant is holding the patient’s head from the back. Episode Image is from Peter Breton, Esq., “On the Native Mode of Couching,” in Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta, Volume 2 (Calcutta: Thacker and Co. Library, 1826). Print image URL: https://archive.org/details/s8id13658440/page/n387/mode/2up.Download mp3 file here.
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About our GuestTulika Singh is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Tulika’s research interests include social, cultural, medical, and disability history with specialization in premodern India. She is writing her dissertation on concepts of bodies and disabilities in early India, in which she engages with the intersectionality of physical impairments and disabilities with caste/class, sex/gender, age, and religion based identities. Her research thus far has led to two peer-reviewed articles, including an upcoming one with Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing. In recognition of Tulika’s ongoing research in disability history, UAlberta awarded her the Field Law Leilani Muir Graduate Research Fellowship (twice) and the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship. In addition to academic research and service, Tulika works as a disability support worker to promote and advocate for disability awareness and justice in community.
Andrew J. Hogan discusses his new book, Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions.
Episode Image: Cover of Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions by Andrew J. Hogan. The background is light green, with a blue line underlining the title.Download mp3 file here.
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About Our GuestAndrew J. Hogan, PhD is the Fr. Henry W. Casper, SJ Professor in History and a Professor in the Departments of History and Medical Humanities at Creighton University. Hogan’s current research examines the history of disability and racial/ethnic minority recruitment and inclusion efforts in US health professions since 1960. Other publications by Hogan include Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016) and peer-reviewed articles in journals including the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Isis, Social Science & Medicine, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Nora O’Neill, an MD/PhD student at Yale University, discusses her research on feminist disability activism in 1980s/1990s Boston.
Episode Image: A close-up photograph of a white t-shirt with a pink logo. In the center is the female sex symbol, a cross topped by a circle, which makes up the wheel of the wheelchair symbol that sits on top. The caption reads “Disabled Female and Proud.” This was a t-shirt found in the PWD’s archives and was likely worn by its members.Download mp3 file here.
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About Our GuestNora O’Neill is an MD/PhD student at Yale University in the History of Science and Medicine Program. Prior to Yale she received her undergraduate degree in the History of Science at Harvard and completed an honors thesis on activism by women with disabilities in 1980s Boston, the project she discusses in this episode. Nora’s current research blends historical and sociological methods and explores the impact of patient activism on medical education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She hopes to combine clinical care with teaching and research in the history of medicine in her future career as a physician-historian.
Doug Crandell discusses his latest book, Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages.
Episode Image: Cover of Twenty-Two Centers an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages by Doug Crandell. The cover is white with twenty-two pennies laid out in four columns. The title is printed among the rows of pennies.Download mp3 file here.
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About our GuestDoug has worked for decades in employment and disability supports. He’s an advocate for a sibling with disabilities. In Twenty-Two Cents an Hour, he focuses on how the Disability Industrial Complex is often impenetrable, mired in deficit-thinking, and controlled by the lobbying of trade groups that do little for people with disabilities. Doug has published eight books with publishers including Penguin-Random House, Chicago Review Press, Virgin Books, and Cornell University Press. His essays on labor, mental health, and disability appear regularly in the SUN magazine. He directs the training and technical assistance center known as www.advancingemployment.com. Additional information is available at: www.dougcrandell.com and www.abolish14c.com.
Allison C. Carey, Pamela Block, and Richard K. Scotch discuss their co-authored book, Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities.
Episode Image: Cover of Allies and Obstacles by Allison C. Carey, Pamela Block, and Richard K. Scotch. The cover is white with a light blue border framing the title of the book and a painting underneath the title. The painting includes splotches and splashes of multi-colored paint on white canvas, with a thick streak of green paint in the middle. On top of the green streak is a red heart, outlined with a blue and white border that looks finger painted.Download mp3 file here.
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About our GuestsAllison C. Carey is a Professor of Sociology, Chair of the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, and director of the MS in Organizational Development and Leadership at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. She is author of a textbook on the Sociology of Disability, Disability and the Sociological Imagination (2022, Sage), as well as On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth Century America (2009, Temple University Press), and co-author of Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities (2020). She has co-edited several volumes, including two with the book series Research in Social Science and Disability with Emerald Press and now serves as its series co-editor. Allies and Obstacles was awarded the 2022 Outstanding Publication Award from the Disability and Society section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the 2021 Scholarly Achievement Award from the North Central Sociological Association. In 2021 she was awarded the Outstanding Career in the Sociology of Disability by the Disability and Society section of ASA.
Pamela Block is a Professor of Anthropology at Western University. Her research interests include disability culture, cultural perceptions of disability, and the intersections of disability, sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, and social status. She studies disability experience on individual, organizational and community levels, with past funded research involving socio-environmental barriers, empowerment/capacity-building, and health promotion. Her qualitative research methodologies combine historical and discourse analyses with community-based ethnographic, autoethnographic, and participatory approaches. She is particularly interested in movements for disability liberation (justice and rights) and disability oppression (eugenics, sterilization, mass-incarceration and killing) in Brazil, the United States and Canada
Richard K. Scotch is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy & Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas. His teaching includes courses on medical sociology, public health, social stratification, and social and health policy, while his research focuses on a variety of social policy topics related to disability, health, and education.
Dr. Scotch received his B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago in 1973 and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Harvard University in 1975 and 1982 respectively. Prior to joining the UTD faculty in 1983, Dr. Scotch worked on the evaluation staff of the Virginia Division for Children and as an analyst with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. In 1982-1983, Dr. Scotch served as a Congressional Science Fellow in the office of U.S. Representative Paul Simon (D-Ill).
Dr. Scotch is the author of several books and numerous articles and monographs on social policy reform and social movements in disability, health care, education, and human services including. From Good Will to Civil Rights, Disability and Community, Disability Protests: Contentious Politics 1970-1999. His 2020 book, coauthored with Pam Block and Allison Carey, is Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities; the book received “best book” awards from the North Central Sociological Association and the Section on Disability in Society of the American Sociological Association. His current research projects include a follow-up edited volume of narratives by activist parents of children with disabilities, interviews with political candidates with disabilities, and a five-year study with Dohyeong Kim that examines social and community barriers experienced by burn injury survivors.
Dr. Scotch serves as a reviewer for numerous professional journals, university presses, private foundations, and government agencies. He has been active in the local health and human service community in North Texas for four decades, working with agencies that include the North Texas Behavioral Health Authority, Collin County, Dallas County, the Dallas Healthy Start Initiative, the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, Educational First Steps, the Texas Pride Impact Funds, and Parkland Health and Hospital System.
If you would like to purchase Allies and Obstacles, you can use discount code “FALLTUP” at Temple University Press through the end of October 2023.
Sandy Sufian discusses her latest book, Familial Fitness: Disability, Adoption, and Family in Modern America. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About our Guest Sandy Sufian is a historian… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 41 – Disability, Adoption, Risk, and the Modern American Family
Guest host Isabelle Avakumovic-Pointon talks with Dr. Maria Bucur, Dr. Frances Bernstein, Dr. Maria Cristina Galmarini, and Dr. Magdalena Zdrodowska about the history of disability in Eastern Europe.
Episode image: A disabled Soviet veteran with no legs sits in a wheelchair that rolls several inches above the ground. He sits on a street curb surrounded by standing military personnel on his right hand side. A small crowd of children stand to his right and look down at him.
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About our GuestsDr. Maria Bucur is Professor of Gender Studies and History at Indiana University in the USA. She has published extensively on gender, eugenic, medicine, and disability in interwar and state socialist Romania. Professor Bucur’s first book, Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania, was published in 2002.Hercurrent research project focuses on developing a platform for the study of the history of disabilities in Eastern Europe.
Dr. Frances Bernstein is Associate Professor of History at Drew University in New Jersey, USA. the mid-twentieth century. Her research focuses on disability, gender, sexuality, medicine, and the body in the Soviet context. Professor Bernstein’s first book, The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses was published in 2007.Her current book project is titled City of Broken Men: Disability, Memory, and Masculinity at the End of World War Two.
Dr. Maria Cristina Galmarini is Associate Professor of History and Global Studies at William & Mary University in Virginia, USA. Her research focuses on social rights for marginalized groups, especially people with disabilities, in the early Soviet Union. Professor Galmarini’s first book, The Right to Be Helped: Entitlement, Deviance, and the Soviet Moral Order, was published in 2016 by Northern Illinois University Press. She has an upcoming book, titled Ambassadors of Social Progress A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War, which will be published in Winter 2023.
Dr. Magdalena Zdrodowska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Audiovisual Art at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her research focuses on the history of Deafness, disability, media, and technology. Professor Zdrodowska’s latest book is titled Telephones, cyborgs, and cinema: Entangled relations between deafness and technology and was published in Polish in 2021. Her current research project is titled The Deaf History of Cinema. Professor Zdrodowska is also an advocate for disability studies in Poland, and she is the Chair of the Disability Studies in Eastern Europe-Reconfigurations research platform.
Guest host Emma Wathen interviews Sami Schalk about her new book, Black Disability Politics.
Episode Image: Cover of Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk. The words are a faint yellow color set against a black background, with red horizontal bars above and below the title “Black Disability Politics.” Download mp3 file here.
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About Our GuestDr. Sami Schalk (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Schalk’s interdisciplinary research focuses broadly on disability, race, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. She has published on literature, film, and material culture in a variety of peer-reviewed humanities journals. Dr. Schalk’s first book Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (Duke University Press 2018) argues that Black women writers of speculative fiction reimagine the possibilities and limits of bodyminds, changing the way we read and interpret categories like (dis)ability, race, gender and sexuality within the context of these non-realist texts. Her second book Black Disability Politics (Duke UP 2022) explores how Black cultural workers have engaged disability as a social and political issue differently than the mainstream, white-dominated disability rights movement. In doing so, Dr. Schalk argues that because Black disability politics take on different qualities, the work has been overlooked or misrecognized within disability studies and Black studies alike. Dr. Schalk also writes for mainstream outlets, serves as a board member for Freedom Inc., and once twerked with Lizzo. You can follow Dr. Schalk on Twitter.
Ryan Lee Cartwright discusses their new book, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity.
Episode Image: Cover of Peculiar Places by Ryan Lee Cartwright. The cover is a pastiche of craft-like images set against a beige backdrop. The images include a rough wooden cabin, a ladder, lace doilies, and a reddish mountaintop.Download mp3 file here.
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About Our GuestRyan Lee Cartwright is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at UC Davis. Their research focuses on disability, gender, and sexuality on the social and spatial margins. Cartwright’s first book,Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity (University of Chicago Press, September 2021), maps racialized queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity across the rural US, from the 1910s to the 1990s. They are at work on a second book examining how, in the early-to-mid twentieth century US, chronic illness came to be understood as a gendered, racialized “social burden.” Cartwright teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on a wide range of topics, including disability studies, queer and trans history, the 1990s, research methodologies, social welfare, and landscapes and places. Cartwright is affiliated with the graduate groups in Cultural Studies and Performance Studies, as well as the designated emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research. They are also the coordinator of the Disability and Social In/Justice DHI research cluster.
Lisa Iezzoni discusses her new book, Making Their Days Happen: Paid Personal Assistance Services Supporting People with Disability Living in Their Homes and Communities Download mp3 here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, MSc is Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and based at the Health Policy Research Center, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 37 – Personal Assistance Services: Past, Present, and Future
Hannah Zaves-Greene discusses her work on Jews and the “public charge provision” in US immigration history. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Hannah Zaves-Greene received her PhD in American Jewish history from New York University’s Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, where she focused on the intersection of immigration, gender and… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 36 – Disability and the History of Jewish Immigration to the United States
Hannah Zaves-Greene discusses her work on Jews and the “public charge provision” in US immigration history. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Hannah Zaves-Greene received her PhD in American Jewish history from New York University’s Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, where she focused on the intersection of immigration, gender and… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 36 – Disability and the History of Jewish Immigration to the United States
Leah Richier discusses her work on mental hospitals in the US South. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Leah Richier is an independent historian with a PhD from the University of Georgia and a BA from Agnes Scott College. She has taught history courses on a wide variety of subjects at… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 35 – Hospitals, Archives, and Ethics in Southern US Disability History
Leah Richier discusses her work on mental hospitals in the US South. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Leah Richier is an independent historian with a PhD from the University of Georgia and a BA from Agnes Scott College. She has taught history courses on a wide variety of subjects at… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 35 – Hospitals, Archives, and Ethics in Southern US Disability History
Jim Odato discusses his new book on disability activist and Mouth editor Lucy Gwin. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest James Odato is a graduate of University of Massachusetts Amherst and has a master’s degree in English from University at Albany. He is currently the editor of the Adirondack Explorer. Prior… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 34 – The Life and Work of Lucy Gwin
Chelsea Chamberlain discusses her research on the history of Pennsylvania’s Elwyn School. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Chelsea D. Chamberlain is a PhD Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a MA from the University of Montana and is on the advisory board of the Pennhurst Memorial and Preservation… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 33 – A Eugenic Institution in Progressive America
Susan Burch discusses her new book on the individuals, families, and communities who were affected by Canton Asylum. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Susan Burch is a professor of American studies and a former director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity at Middlebury College. Her… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 32 – Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions
Martin Atherton discusses his career and research in Deaf Studies, deaf history, and beyond! Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Martin Atherton retired from his post as Course Leader in British Sign Language and Deaf Studies in 2018 after 20 years as a member of staff at the University of Central… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 31 – Deaf Leisure and Culture in Northwest England
Philippa Campsie discusses her new article on Charles Barbier, Louis Braille, and the story of raised-point writing. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Philippa Campsie has a bachelor’s degree in biology and history from Dalhousie University, and a master’s degree in urban planning from the University of Toronto. She is an… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 30 – The Real Origins of Raised-Point Writing
Nicholas Hrynyk (University of Toronto) discusses his work on queer and disability history, including his recent article on HIV/AIDS, masculinity, disease, and disability. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Nick Hrynyk is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Historical Studies at the University… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 29 – HIV/AIDS, Masculinity, and Disability
Ravi Malhotra (University of Ottawa) discusses his new book, co-authored with Benjamin Isitt, about the life and work of American-Canadian socialist radical E.T. Kingsley. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Ravi Malhotra is Full Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Common Law Section. He holds five degrees and… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 28 – The Life and Work of Socialist Radical E.T. Kingsley
Micah Khater (Yale University) discusses her dissertation on the history of Black women, escape, and Alabama prisons. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Micah Khater is an Arab American Ph.D. Candidate in the Departments of African American Studies and History at Yale University. She is currently completing her dissertation, “‘Unable to Find Any… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 27 – Disability, Race, and Incarceration
Nicole Belolan discusses her work on the material culture of gout in early America, as well as public history, pedagogy, and more! Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. Nicole Belolan, PhD, is the Public Historian in Residence at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities at Rutgers University-Camden. At Rutgers, she directs a continuing… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 26 – Disability, Material Culture, and Public History
Bruce Dierenfield and David Gerber discuss their new book, Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education: The Story of Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guests Bruce J. Dierenfield is a professor of history and director of the All-College Honors Program at Canisius College. He has… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 25 – Disability, Education, and Religious Liberty
Emer Lucey (University of Wisconsin-Madison) discusses her dissertation on memoirs and guidebooks by and for parents of children with disabilities. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript. About Our Guest Emer Lucey is a PhD candidate in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Emer’s dissertation, “Constructing Childhood Disabilities,” examines the history of Down… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 24 – Parent Memoirs and Guidebooks
Coreen McGuire (Durham University) discusses her award-winning work on technology and the categorization of disability. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Coreen McGuire completed her PhD on the measurement of hearing loss in the British Telephone System at the University of Leeds in 2016. Following this, she took up a postdoctoral position… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 23 – Telephony and Hearing Loss in Interwar Britain
Delia Steverson (University of Florida) discusses Delores Phillips’s The Darkest Child and other intersections between disability and African American literature and history. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Dr. Delia Steverson is an Assistant Professor of African American Literature at the University of Florida. Her book explores the nuances of how race… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 22 – Disability in African American Literature and History
Carolyn Speer and Jay Price (Wichita State University) discuss accessibility in the classroom and beyond. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guests Carolyn Speer is the Manager of Instructional Design and Access for Wichita State University. She works with a campus team of accessibility and accommodations professionals to help ensure the accessibility of… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 21 – Accessibility at Wichita State University
Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy (University of New Brunswick) discusses her new book, Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy is a historian of the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, and Disability History at the University of New Brunswick. Her work has appeared… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 20 – Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean
Liz Jackson and Natalie Wright discuss their Functional Fashions exhibit and other projects. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guests Liz Jackson is the founder of The Disabled List, a design organization that engages in disability as a creative practice. She is a curator at Critical Axis, a community driven project that… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 19 – Functional Fashions
Bess Williamson (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) discusses her new book on disability and design in US history. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Dr. Bess Williamson is a historian of design and material culture, focusing primarily on works and influences of the last half-century. She is particularly interested… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 18 – Disability and Design
Jason Ellis (University of British Columbia) discusses his new book on the history of special education in Toronto and beyond. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Jason Ellis, Associate Professor of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, is a historian of education. University of Toronto Press published his book,… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 17 – Special Education in Toronto
Jen Hale, archivist at the Perkins School for the Blind, discusses the school’s history and collections. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Jen Hale is the Archivist for the Perkins School for the Blind. She has presented on the need for accessible photographs in digital collections and on legal and ethical considerations for… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 16 – Perkins School for the Blind
Natalie Lira (University of Illinois) discusses her work on eugenic sterilization, race, and reproductive justice in California. Download mp3 file here. Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Natalie Lira is an interdisciplinary scholar who examines the politics of reproduction and the ways that U.S. histories of racial and reproductive justice intersect. She is currently an… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 15 – California’s Eugenic Sterilization Program
Michael Davis (Hampton University) discusses his research on the Wright Brothers and Edgar Cayce. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Dr. Mike Davis is Assistant Professor of History at Hampton University, an HBCU in Hampton, Virginia. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Davis previously taught at Laredo Community College… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 14 – Disability, Spirituality, and Alternative Medicine
Camille Owens (Yale University) tells the story of nineteenth-century child performer Oscar Moore. Download mp3 here.Download pdf transcript here About Our Guest Camille S. Owens is a PhD Candidate in African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University. Her dissertation, “Blackness and the Human Child: Race, Prodigy, and the Logic of American Childhood,” traces… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 13 – Disability, Childhood, and an African American Prodigy
Iain Hutchison (University of Glasgow) discusses his work on disability history in Scotland. Download mp3 here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Iain Hutchison completed his undergraduate degree as a mature student in 2000, at the University of Strathclyde, where he remained until completion of his PhD in 2004. He is currently a research affiliate… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 12 – Disability History in Scotland
Ayah Nuriddin (Johns Hopkins University) discusses the history of Maryland’s Crownsville State Hospital. Download mp3 here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Ayah Nuriddin is a PhD candidate in the Department of the History of Medicine, and Graduate Fellow in the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. For this academic… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 10 – Psychiatric Jim Crow
Director Michael Hudson discusses the history of APH, the museum’s exhibits and collections, and accessible museum practice. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Mike Hudson has been the director of the Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind since 2005. A native of Lexington, KY, he obtained his M.A. in the… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 9 – The Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind
Professor David Gerber (University of Buffalo) discusses this classic 1946 film about servicemen readjusting to civilian life after World War II. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Dr. David Gerber is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and Emeritus Director of the Center for Disability Studies at the… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 8 – The Best Years of Our Lives
Dr. Laurel Daen discusses her award-winning article. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Dr. Laurel Daen is a National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Laurel’s current research focuses on disability in early North America (to 1840). She is writing a… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 7 – Disability In the Early Republic
Dr. Nancy Hansen (University of Manitoba) discusses disability history and activism in Canada. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Dr. Nancy Hansen is an Associate Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Disability Studies at the University of Manitoba. Nancy obtained a PhD (Human Geography) from the University of… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 6 – Canadian Disability History
Dr. Laura Micheletti Puaca discusses her chapter, “The Largest Occupational Group of All the Disabled: Homemakers with Disabilities and Vocational Rehabilitation in Postwar America,” which was published in the collection Disabling Domesticity (2017) and won one of the Disability History Association’s publication awards. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Dr. Laura Micheletti… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 3 – Disabled Homemakers in Postwar America
Dr. Hannah Thompson discusses her new book, Reviewing Blindness in French Fiction, 1789-2013. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Dr Hannah Thompson (Hannah.thompson@rhul.ac.uk) is a Reader in French at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely on nineteenth-century French prose fiction, with particular reference to gender, sexuality and the… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 2 – Blindness in French Fiction
Haley Gienow-McConnell discusses her research on representations of disability in the hit 1970s TV show The Waltons. Download mp3 file here.Download pdf transcript here. About Our Guest Haley Gienow-McConnell is a PhD candidate at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Her research interests include cultural histories of disability, deaf histories, and histories of women’s health and… Continue Reading Podcast Episode 1 – Disability and the Waltons