Disability Historians
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@evanpsullivan.bsky.social
@drkyliesmith.bsky.social
Historian. Assoc Prof. Director of the Center for Healthcare History and Policy @Emory. Writing “Jim Crow in the Asylum” for @UNCPress. Knitter, baker, dog lover. Un-American. 🇦🇺
@beckhistorian.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 they/them 🗃️ PhD in progress at CHSTM @ University of Manchester ♿️ History of white canes in twentieth century Britain 🧑🦯➡️ #DisHist 🌳 I have an egg called Dippy and we go on adventures together
@judeseal.bsky.social
PhD. from Royal Holloway, University of London. Repost ≠ Endorsement / All views my own. Research: History/Archaeology of Medicine, Disability, Disease, Trauma. Palæopathology. Also, religion, social change. Medievalist. 'Theorist' & 'Massive Autodidact'
@johnpaulnewman.bsky.social
Historian of Central and Southeastern Europe, Maynooth University. Find me in Dublin, Prague, Zagreb, Sofia.
@beckierutherford.bsky.social
Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | Editor at History Workshop | @historyworkshop.org.uk |
@blindscholar.bsky.social
I’m just a boy, standing in front of a new social media site, begging them to consider accessibility.
@dcsmith.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Whitman College | Writing on religion, disability, and social history in the Roman Empire
@ayahnerd.bsky.social
It's me again! **This is my only public social media account** Muslim. Yale prof. Historian of upsetting things. Librarian. Black Feminist.
@paulvt.bsky.social
Historicus | Leiden University | History of disability, human rights, global health, welfare, religion
@drawingbloodpod.bsky.social
A podcast about art & visual culture, the histories of science & medicine, and the macabre. Hosted by Christy Slobogin (@slobogin.bsky.social) and Emma Merkling (@emmamerkling.bsky.social)
@stephaniekw.bsky.social
Pro Genealogist | Family Historian | Married to ckolonko.bsky.social | RQG Student Member & IHGS Student | Local History | Medieval Genealogy | Genetic Genealogy | Feminist | Cat Lady | Norfolk UK | She/Her
@coreenanne.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Twentieth-Century British History @Durham_uni #dishist #histtech #histmed #ownviews #she #her
@disabledarchaeo.bsky.social
Egyptologist & Disability Activist w/ CP. ♿ #DisHist of Ptolemaic Egypt & inclusive museums. Co-Founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social. President @museumedrt.bsky.social. Co-Chair CripAntiquity. New Yorker in the UK. She/Her. Opinions mine.
@badancient.bsky.social
Ancient Historian: Global history, ancient disability, veteran studies, etc. Also runs Bad Ancient: Fact-checking common claims about the ancient world. Website: www.badancient.com Newsletter: https://owenrees.substack.com/
@jsfarr.bsky.social
Assoc prof of ENGL, Marquette U • writing about deafness, disability, queerness in the looong c18 • cat dad • running punk • KEXP listener • novel reader • 🏳️🌈🦻• 🏀🏈 U of U, MU, Bucks, Packers • he/him
@sbhist.bsky.social
Historian of disability and Canadian politics. Researcher, PhD. Jazz, horror, and cli-fi guy.
@sambrady.bsky.social
Collections Engagement Officer for the National Paralympic Heritage Trust. PhD in the history of sport wheelchair technology @ Uni of Glasgow Check out the UK Disability History and Heritage Hub SSF nerd / ✡️ & proud. www.samuelbrady.wordpress.com
@jlphistory.bsky.social
Disability-based historian. I defended my dissertation and now I'm not sure what to do with myself. I guess publish it. Ask me about my dogs.
@nicolebelolan.bsky.social
consulting public historian | historian of disability & material culture | cat mom & native plant mom | house restorer | local Green Team Chair | antique lover | not complying! | views my own
@meghanhenning.bsky.social
Deeply committed to the color green. Assistant Provost for the Common Academic Program and Associate Professor at the University of Dayton. Disability studies. Apocalypses. Hell. Rhetoric. Bible. Author of Hell Hath No Fury. https://udayton.academia.edu/Me
@martinasalvante.bsky.social
Historian of modern Italy and Europe, with research interests in fascism, gender, masculinity, and disability.
@tlmarttinen.bsky.social
Nordic Colonialism, Indigenized Lutheranism & Eugenics. Interests: Lived Stories/ Race & Genetics/ Disability & Euthanasia. PhD (C) CMH Oxford Brookes U. http://CONFRONT-EUGENICS.ORG. Research Collaboration-CEMFOR Uppsala U. SSHRC Awardee
@cernach.bsky.social
MCF sourd à Paris 8, histoire des sourds et du noétomalalien; petit scenariste d’une BD, aime la Sci-Fi/fantazy (essaie d’en écrire) regarde les etoiles, http://noetomalalie.hypotheses.org
@ieidle.bsky.social
27 He/They Autistic + Queer. Ask me about the history of neurodiversity. Grad student at Georgia State.
@johncarranza.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and public health; sex education; disability history. Assistant Professor of Instruction at Texas State University.
@ellenforget.bsky.social
Academic studying braille, print disabilities, and small-press publishing. Editor by trade, academic at heart. she/they. ocd & long-covid & chronic pain.
@frankmondelli.bsky.social
Cultural historian of technology, media, and disability in modern Japan. Assistant Professor and Chair of Japanese Studies at the University of Delaware. 雯出理フランク。日本の技術・メディア・障害史。 デラウェア大学の言語・文学・文化学部の日本語学科長。助教授 。
@nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social
Historian of disability, early America, and the 19th century. Assistant Prof at Kean University Views mine, not my employer's
@hstgrrl.bsky.social
Studies 19th-early 20th C. history of race, gender, ethnicity, and disability with a focus on California. Author of California and The Politics of Disability, 1850-1970 and other stuff, too.
@jonathanhsy.bsky.social
(he/他/伊) Literature & language & theory & disability & donuts & ampersands. Cripqueer. Antiracist Medievalisms: From "Yellow Peril" to Black Lives Matter (2021) https://muse.jhu.edu/book/83922
@kira-aislinn.bsky.social
AMS Postdoc in the history of medicine, uOttawa. Creative writer & public historian. Interested in Canadian history, childhood, disability, historical fiction, and mad studies.
@travisclau.bsky.social
(he/him/his) Assistant Professor + Poet @ Kenyon: c18/c19 British Literature/History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)/Health Humanities/Disability Studies travisclau.com
@ashleyshoo.bsky.social
#PhilTech #STS #DisabilityStudies #Cyborg #Bioethics #DisCoTec. Disabled person. Strong opinions and typos my urn.
@anthroetc.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Bioanthropology at UoA in Aotearoa/NZ. Infectious disease and epidemics; disability; history and memory.
@kenielsen.bsky.social
Historian of disability, gender, and law. Major fan of knitting, murder mysteries, my peeps, and chocolate.
@dig-history.bsky.social
Four feminist historians. 200+ episodes, and a world of history to unearth. Can you dig it? digpodcast.org SPIRITUALISM’S PLACE: REFORMERS, SEEKERS AND SEANCES IN LILY DALE now available from Cornell University Press
@jenbarclay.bsky.social
Historian of race and disability at the University at Buffalo. Author of The Mark of Slavery (U Illinois Press).
@johnmkinder.bsky.social
Historian of #war, #disabilty, #veterans, #zoos. OKSTATE U. Writing book on murder in #WWII MS. Profile: https://tinyurl.com/23xfwzmh. World War Zoos: Humans & Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age https://tinyurl.com/4anuu4cp
@hbuxton.bsky.social
Bodies, medicine, + colonialism in the British Empire // Assistant Professor of History Kenyon College (she/hers)
@lendavis.bsky.social
First gen professor of disability studies, poverty and working class studies, novel criticism and theory. Currently Emeritus Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
@sarahbelle721.bsky.social
History prof in Buffalo | Civil War era, disability, medicine | AAHM & DHA | Exec Editor, Nursing Clio | Prod, Dig: A History Podcast | she/her |Order Spiritualism’s Place now! https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777264/spiritualisms-place/
@rebeccapscales.bsky.social
Historian; Rutgers Ph.D.; thinking about radio, listening, & sound; empire; tech, medicine, & disability; writing about #polio in France. Baker & dog parent. Tired of sitting still.
@sevenpaperclips.bsky.social
Gender & Science at Pitt Researching Gender & Trauma among WWI women veterans & queer kinship in Ireland ADHD Friend of Garden Gnomes Same SevenPaperclips from the other social media sites.
@profdavidturner.bsky.social
Disability historian, Director of the Research Institute in Culture and Communities, Swansea University. Vice Chair Disability Arts Cymru. Writing Disability: A History of Resistance for The Bodley Head / Vintage.
@besswww.bsky.social
writer/researcher/professor of design (mostly things that do not work). Author ACCESSIBLE AMERICA. On the internet since 1996 so kinda skeptical. Newly in North Carolina, USA
@bethlinker.bsky.social
Historian of Science + Medicine + Public Health + Disability @UPenn. New book re origins of posture health panic: SLOUCH https://tinyurl.com/46hfkpsn bethlinker.com Other books: WAR'S WASTE & CIVIL DISABILITIES
@nursingclio.bsky.social
A collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day political, social, and cultural issues surrounding gender and medicine. nursingclio.org
@jaivirdi.com
Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Delaware. Deaf & forever a radical Learn more: jaivirdi.com
@jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, gender, & politics in the American West. Creator & Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio. She/Her/Hers
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way. Lives with epilepsy.
@evanpsullivan.bsky.social
PhD | Assistant Prof of History at SUNY ADK | Historian of disability, gender, & war | book: Constructing Disability after the Great War | Father, husband, & cat dad | posts are my own