Environmental Humanities

Disability Studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores social, political, cultural, and economic factors that shape disability; considers the ways disability is understood and constructed across different historical moments, cultures, and nations; examines the intersectional relationships amongst disability, race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality; and foregrounds the experiences and perspectives of advocates, scholars, artists, and thinkers. The Disability Studies program attunes students to varied ways of thinking, communicating and moving through the world. he Disability Studies minor provides an interdisciplinary learning experience about key disability issues. We approach disability not as fixed or singular category, but as a fluid, historically shifting, culturally specific formation that intersects with race, class, gender, language and nation. Together we will study disability history, culture and politics in ways that foreground disabled people’s experiences, perspectives, and knowledge.

Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) is the journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). It is a multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities and arts, disability rights advocates, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities. It represents the full range of methods, epistemologies, perspectives, and content that the field of disability studies embraces. DSQ is committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and to promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society.

The Journal of Philosophy of Disability is a scholarly publication that examines questions of disability, broadly construed. It includes peer-reviewed articles, book reviews, critical responses, commentaries, and occasional symposia and special issues. The editors welcome scholarship from all philosophical perspectives, including analytic, continental, and pragmatist traditions, the history of philosophy, empirically informed philosophy, non-Western philosophy, feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, and other traditions and fields that substantively engage research in philosophy of disability.