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 ...

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 ...

While Hutchinson explored different academic paths in the first semester of her junior year, her advisor recommended the new major, though she did not realize at the time how significant her decision ...

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 ...

In the fall of 2023, the UAB School of Health Professions launched an undergraduate program in Disability Studies and Rehabilitation Science. This year, the program unveiled a minor option to the ...

Medical technology is often viewed as a neutral tool for healing or curing; however, for many disabled people, it represents a complex power dynamic between their own lived experiences and clinical ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This fall, Rutgers University–New Brunswick will introduce a new minor in disability studies. With one in four adults in the U.S. living with a disability, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...