Someone wrote a few days ago asking for information on
Master's
programs in Disability Studies.
Theonly program in the U.S. that I know of that is
specifically in
disability
studies (in the interdisciplinary, cultural studies sense of
the term)
is the University of Illinois at Chicago, where David
Mitchell, Sharon
Snyder, Carol Gill, and Lennard Davis are all based.
In English MA/PhD programs (with an interdisciplinary bent),
Berkeley
would be the place to go--a really vibrant disability
studies community
is working there both at the university and in the community
(and in
association, often, with other faculty at San Francisco
State
University, another possibility--and one not as tied to the
English
Department [Paul Longmore, in history, is the most prominent
name
there--and he was the director of the NEH's groundbreaking
Summer 2000
Institute]).
Emory, of course, because of Rosemarie Garland-Thomson in
women's
studies (and recently Sander Gilman in English); potentially
the
University of Michigan as well, given Tobin Siebers's work
there.
Increasingly, I'd say it's possible to do some good
disability studies
work at George Washington Univeresity, where I work. But
you'd have to
pick a home department, like history or anthropology.
Temple, Ohio State, and the University of Toledo all have
programs in
place for undergrads--in terms of graduate work, I'm not so
sure
(though
I think that Ohio State does seem to be generating a lot of
graduates
who are doing work in DS--Brenda Brueggemann is the main
contact
there).
Internationally, it's more of a challenge--the University of
Calgary and University College, Dublin are both very open to
conversations in and around disability studies, though the
faculty
support might not be as thick as you'd like.
Roy Richard Grinker, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
The George Washington University
Editor, Anthropological Quarterly
2110 G St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20052
USA
202-994-6984; 202-994-6097 (Fax)
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