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 ...

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 ...

This post was updated on Nov. 12 at 10:05 p.m. UCLA is offering a new Bachelor of Arts in disability studies, which aims to bridge academic theories with lived experience and encourage students to ...

Thanks in part to the overwhelming popularity of UCLA’s 16-year-old disability studies minor, the campus has launched a new disability studies interdepartmental major — the first such major at any ...

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 ...

A scholar of linguistic anthropology and the anthropology of disability, UChicago graduate student Sharon Seegers conducts research on sign language interpreters in Hanoi. Her work focuses on the ways ...

1 in 5. This is the proportion of Americans that have a disability according to the US Census. Disability is one of the largest marginalized groups in the United States. Yet, instead of investing in ...

When J.S.D. candidate Doron Dorfman J.S.M. ’14 arrived at Stanford five years ago, he was shocked to find that not a single person at the university identified as a disabilities scholar. This fall, ...

No grandmothers died. No dogs ate homework. No computers corrupted term papers. And so it was that Carolyn Shivers’ students used no such excuses when turning in assignments — and she knows why. The ...

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 ...