History of the Disability Studies Minor . Rifkin, a professor in the English department and one of the founders of the disability studies program, said she became interested in disability studies when ...

When I arrived on Georgetown University’s campus as a freshman in 2016, the disability studies minor did not exist, and the primary way I thought about my own ability was as “not disabled.” The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The undergraduate Minor in Disability Studies examines disability issues from multiple lenses, balancing theoretical exploration with practical application, and providing students with a broad ...

T hat scholar, the reader’s editor, Lennard Davis, published the first edition of the reader in 1997, when disability studies was relatively new. In his introduction to the first edition, Davis ...

For a discipline that seeks to understand the experiences of up to one-in-four Americans and 1.3 billion people worldwide, there is a glaring lack of disability education on Harvard’s campus.

Virdi also is continuing to contribute to a long-term project, “Objects of Disability,” an online resource database of historical artifacts used or made by Canadians with disabilities, and is at work ...

As part of the “Toward an Anti-Ableist Academy” conference hosted by the University of Michigan’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion this month, a panel of five faculty members from the UM ...

The disability studies major at Toledo will be based on a 21-credit set of required courses. They include an introduction to the field, courses on disability culture and a course on the history of ...

Disability studies is a rich, interdisciplinary field that centers the perspectives and experiences of people with disabilities. The field investigates disability representation, history, social and ...