About Me:
I trained as a cultural geographer at Clark University and then as a medical anthropologist at The University of Michigan, with postdoctoral work at Northwestern University and at the University of California, San Francisco in health policy and disability in urban and medical anthropology. I have worked in disability studies since 1979 while still maintaining an interest in ethnicity and immigration. I was on the founding boards of: the Society for Disability Studies, the Anthropology and Disability Research Interest Group of the Society for Medical Anthropology, and the Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living, and have mentored a generation of disability studies scholars in the US, Australia, and Guatemala. I have directed research at the World Institute on Disability and the Association of Higher Education and Disability. I am currently the Executive Director of the Society for Disability Studies, and Adjunct Professor at the City University of New York in their MA program in Disability Studies and MS in Disability Services in Higher Education. In January 2020 I will return to be the Kate Welling Distinguished Scholar in Disability Studies for the second time. I have received research funding from NIH, NIMH, NIDRR, the American Anthropological Association, The Felton Bequest, and Sprint Foundation. I was a 2000 NIDRR Switzer Fellow and am the 2014 recipient of the Society for Disability Studies, Senior Scholar Award. I was the Director of a California independent living center and currently represent disabled citizens on the California state Telecommunications Access for the Deaf and Disabled Administrative Committee. My current work focuses on speech impairment and the politics of social participation and on disability services in higher education. With Pamela Block, a book on speech impairment is forthcoming. I live in Northern California, behind the redwood curtain, surrounded by my family—most importantly one 16 year old stepson and 3 Moroccan girls aged 16, 12 and 11—and by spinning wheels, looms, baskets full of fleece, yarn, and fiber waiting to become cloth.
Area(s) of Training
applied anthropology, cultural anthropology, ethnography, ethnology, medical anthropology
Area(s) of Expertise
disability, non-profits, immigration
Current Area of Employment
Teaching disability studies and Executive Director of the Society for Disability StudiesStudies
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