Schedule
SCHEDULE OF TOPICS – Winter 2025
Schedule is subject to change - consult the MODULES in Canvas regularly
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Week 1
Tues Jan 7 Course Introduction
- Film in class: Crip Camp: A Disability Revoluti Links to an external site.on Links to an external site.(2020) - link Links to an external site.
- Simi Linton, “Reassigning Meaning,” Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity, NYU Press, 1998, pp. 8-17 Links to an external site. - link
- Watch this week pre-recorded lecture: “Intro to Disability Studies”
Thurs Jan 9 Disability Studies & Disability History
- Julie Avril Minich, “Enabling Whom? Critical Disability Studies Now,” Lateral, Issue 5.1, 2016 Links to an external site. (7 pages) - link
- TL Lewis, “Working Definition of Ableism – January 2022 Update,” Talila A. Lewis blog, Jan. 1, 2022 Links to an external site.- link
- Teresa Meade and David Serlin, “Editors’ Introduction,” Radical History Review, Issue 94, 2006, pp. 1-5 Download Teresa Meade and David Serlin, “Editors’ Introduction,” Radical History Review, Issue 94, 2006, pp. 1-5 - pdf
Week 2
Tues Jan 14 Disability and the Justification of Inequality
- Douglas Baynton, “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History,” The New Disability History: American Perspectives, eds. Paul Longmore and Lauri Umansky, New York University Press, 2001, pp. 33-57 Download Douglas Baynton, “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History,” The New Disability History: American Perspectives, eds. Paul Longmore and Lauri Umansky, New York University Press, 2001, pp. 33-57 - pdf
- Kim Nielsen, “Introduction,” A Disability History of the United States, Beacon Press, 2012, pp. xi-xxiii Download Kim Nielsen, “Introduction,” A Disability History of the United States, Beacon Press, 2012, pp. xi-xxiii - pdf
- Kim Nielsen, “I Am Disabled, and Must Go at Something Else Besides Hard Labor: Institutionalization of Disability, 1865-1890,” A Disability History of the United States, Beacon Press, 2012, 78-99 Download Kim Nielsen, “I Am Disabled, and Must Go at Something Else Besides Hard Labor: Institutionalization of Disability, 1865-1890,” A Disability History of the United States, Beacon Press, 2012, 78-99 - pdf
- In class: “A vote for ‘Black Disability Politics’,” interview with Sami Schalk on It's Been a Minute, NPR Links to an external site.(Nov 8, 2022, 17 minutes) - link
- Watch this week pre-recorded lecture: “Disability and Normalcy in Historical Perspective” - link
- Optional:
Thurs Jan 16 Methods and Ethics in Disability History
- Penny Richards and Susan Burch, “Documents, Ethics, and the Disability Historian,” The Oxford Handbook of Disability History, Oxford University Press, 2018 Download Penny Richards and Susan Burch, “Documents, Ethics, and the Disability Historian,” The Oxford Handbook of Disability History, Oxford University Press, 2018 (15 pages) - pdf
- Susan Lawrence, “Introduction: The Historians, the County, and the Dead,” Privacy and the Past: Research, Law, Archives, Ethics, Rutgers UP, 2016, pp. 1-18 Download Susan Lawrence, “Introduction: The Historians, the County, and the Dead,” Privacy and the Past: Research, Law, Archives, Ethics, Rutgers UP, 2016, pp. 1-18 - pdf
- Susan Lawrence, “Managing Privacy: Historians at Work,” Privacy and the Past: Research, Law, Archives, Ethics, Rutgers UP, 2016, pp. 89-113 Download Susan Lawrence, “Managing Privacy: Historians at Work,” Privacy and the Past: Research, Law, Archives, Ethics, Rutgers UP, 2016, pp. 89-113 - pdf
Week 3
Tues Jan 21 Black Disability Politics of Section 504
- Film in class: Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution Links to an external site. (2020) - link
- Sami Schalk, “’We Have a Right to Rebel’: Black Disability Politics and the Black Panther Party,” Black Disability Politics, Duke University Press, 2022, pp. 23-47 Download Sami Schalk, “’We Have a Right to Rebel’: Black Disability Politics and the Black Panther Party,” Black Disability Politics, Duke University Press, 2022, pp. 23-47 - pdf
- Kim Nielsen, “Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough: The Progressive Era, 1890-1927,” A Disability History of the United States, Beacon Press, 2012, pp. 100-130 Download Kim Nielsen, “Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough: The Progressive Era, 1890-1927,” A Disability History of the United States, Beacon Press, 2012, pp. 100-130 - pdf
- Watch this week recorded lecture: “Engaging Disability, Empowering History” - link
Thurs Jan 23 Indigeneity & Disability [facilitation Group A]
- Susan Burch, “Introduction: Committed, ”Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions, University of North Carolina Press, 2021, pp. 1-21 Download Susan Burch, “Introduction: Committed, ”Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions, University of North Carolina Press, 2021, pp. 1-21 - pdf
- Susan Burch, “Many Stories, Many Paths” (Ch. 1), Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions, University of North Carolina Press, 2021, pp. 22-38 Download Susan Burch, “Many Stories, Many Paths” (Ch. 1), Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions, University of North Carolina Press, 2021, pp. 22-38 - pdf
- Kim Nielsen, “The Spirit Chooses the Body It Will Occupy: Indigenous North America, pre-1492,” A Disability History of the United States, Beacon Press, 2012, 1-11 Download Kim Nielsen, “The Spirit Chooses the Body It Will Occupy: Indigenous North America, pre-1492,” A Disability History of the United States, Beacon Press, 2012, 1-11 - pdf
Week 4
Tues Jan 28 Canton Asylum & Archival Protocols [facilitation Group B]
- Pemina Yellow Bird, “Wild Indians: Native Perspectives on the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians,” National Empowerment Center, n.d. Download Pemina Yellow Bird, “Wild Indians: Native Perspectives on the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians,” National Empowerment Center, n.d. (10 pages) - pdf
- David Walker, “Horse-Stealing Mania: The Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians,” Mad in America: Science, Psychiatry, and Social Justice blog, March 14, 2015 Links to an external site. (7 pages) - link
- “Protocols for Native American Archival Materials,” First Archivist Circle, April 7, 2007 Links to an external site. (25 pages) - link
Thurs Jan 30 Remembering
- Susan Burch, “Continuance” (Ch. 5) and “Remembering” (Ch. 6), Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions, University of North Carolina Press, 2021, pp. 82-107 Download Susan Burch, “Continuance” (Ch. 5) and “Remembering” (Ch. 6), Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions, University of North Carolina Press, 2021, pp. 82-107 - pdf
- In-Class listen to this podcast: Susan Burch, “Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions,” Disability History Association, Episode 32, Dec 27, 2021 - mp3
Week 5
Tues Feb 4 Mental Disability History Research
- David Wright and Renee Saucier, “Madness in the Archives: Anonymity, Ethics, and Mental Health History Research,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association Download David Wright and Renee Saucier, “Madness in the Archives: Anonymity, Ethics, and Mental Health History Research,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, Vol. 23, 2012, pp. 65-90 Download , Vol. 23, 2012, pp. 65-90 - pdf
- Françoise N. Hamlin, “Historians and Ethics: Finding Anne Moody,” American Historical Review, April 2020, pp. 487-497 Download Françoise N. Hamlin, “Historians and Ethics: Finding Anne Moody,” American Historical Review, April 2020, pp. 487-497 - pdf
- Listen in class to the podcast: Leah Richier, “Hospitals, Archives, and Ethics in Southern US Disability History,” Disability History Association, Episode 39, June 2022 - mp3
Thurs Feb 6 Black Disability History
- Webinar: Patrick Cokley, “We’ve ALWAYS Resisted: The History of Disabled Black Activism” - link
- Moya Bailey and Izetta Autumn Mobley, “Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework,” Gender & Society, Vol. 33, 2019 Download Moya Bailey and Izetta Autumn Mobley, “Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework,” Gender & Society, Vol. 33, 2019 - pdf
- Kim Nielsen, “The Deviant and the Dependent: Creating Citizens, 1776-1865,” A Disability History of the United States, Beacon Press, 2012, 49-77 Download Kim Nielsen, “The Deviant and the Dependent: Creating Citizens, 1776-1865,” A Disability History of the United States, Beacon Press, 2012, 49-77 - pdf
Week 6
Tues Feb 11 Incarceration, Slavery, & Resistance [facilitation Group C]
- Micah Khater, “No Use to the State: Phrasing Escape and a Black Radical Epistolary of Disability in Early Twentieth-Century Alabama Prisons,” Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol. 43, Fall 2023 Links to an external site.(24 pages) - link
- Dea Boster, “‘I Made Up My Mind to Act Both Deaf and Dumb’: Displays of Disability and Slave Resistance in the Antebellum American South,” Disability and Passing, eds. Daniel Wilson and Jeffrey Brune, Temple University Press, 2013, pp. 71-98 Download Dea Boster, “‘I Made Up My Mind to Act Both Deaf and Dumb’: Displays of Disability and Slave Resistance in the Antebellum American South,” Disability and Passing, eds. Daniel Wilson and Jeffrey Brune, Temple University Press, 2013, pp. 71-98 - pdf
Thurs Feb 13 Saving Black History
- Podcast: Ayah Nuriddin, “Psychiatric Jim Crow,” Disability History Association, March 2019 - link
- Patricia Galloway, “Providing Restricted Access to Mental Health Archives within Government Archives: The Subject Stakeholder,” The American Archivist, Vol. 84, 2021, pp. 165-188 Download Patricia Galloway, “Providing Restricted Access to Mental Health Archives within Government Archives: The Subject Stakeholder,” The American Archivist, Vol. 84, 2021, pp. 165-188 - pdf
- The Central State Hospital Digital Library & Archives Project - link
- Guest speaker at 11:30am: Dr. Lorrie Dong, Archivist/ Preservation Administrator
- Lorrie received her PhD from UT in 2015. Her dissertation research was on the social ecologies of mental institution records, with a focus on the transition from recordkeeping settings to archival environments. Lorrie was a post-doctoral researcher for an Andrew W. Mellon-funded project at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) to create a digital archives for a historical collection of mental health records. Prior employers include the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, and the University Library at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Week 7
Tues Feb 18 Visualizing Enslavement & Enfreakment [facilitation Group D]
- Ellen Samuels, “Examining Millie and Christine McKoy: Where Enslavement and Enfreakment Meet,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 37, 2011, pp. 53-81 Download Ellen Samuels, “Examining Millie and Christine McKoy: Where Enslavement and Enfreakment Meet,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 37, 2011, pp. 53-81 - pdf
- Cassandra Jackson, “Visualizing Slavery: Photography and the Disabled Subject in the Art of Carrie Mae Weems,” Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions, ed. Christopher M. Bell, Michigan State University Press, 2011, pp. 31-46 Download Cassandra Jackson, “Visualizing Slavery: Photography and the Disabled Subject in the Art of Carrie Mae Weems,” Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions, ed. Christopher M. Bell, Michigan State University Press, 2011, pp. 31-46 - pdf
Thurs Feb 20 An Archive of Skin [facilitation Group E]
- Adria Imada, “Introduction,” An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration, University of California Press, 2022, pp. 1-34 Download Adria Imada, “Introduction,” An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration, University of California Press, 2022, pp. 1-34 - pdf
- Adria Imada, “A Criminal Archive of Skin,” An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration, pp. 70-118 Download Adria Imada, “A Criminal Archive of Skin,” An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration, pp. 70-118 - pdf
Week 8
Tues Feb 25 An Archive of Kin [facilitation Group F]
- Adria Imada, “Dreaming in Pictures: Queer Kinship and Subaltern Family Albums,” An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration, University of California Press, 2022, pp. 160-203 Download Adria Imada, “Dreaming in Pictures: Queer Kinship and Subaltern Family Albums,” An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration, University of California Press, 2022, pp. 160-203 - pdf
- Adria Imada, “Epilogue: Healing Encounters at the Settlement,” An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration, pp. 204-231 Download Adria Imada, “Epilogue: Healing Encounters at the Settlement,” An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration, pp. 204-231 - pdf
Thur Feb 27 Disability Archival Methodology
- Gracen Brilmyer, “Towards Sickness: Developing a Critical Disability Archival Methodology,” Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Vol. 17, 2020, pp. 26-45 Download Gracen Brilmyer, “Towards Sickness: Developing a Critical Disability Archival Methodology,” Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Vol. 17, 2020, pp. 26-45 - pdf
- Susan Lawrence, “Archivists at the Gates,” Privacy and the Past: Research, Law, Archives, Ethics, Rutgers UP, 2016, pp. 65-88 Download Susan Lawrence, “Archivists at the Gates,” Privacy and the Past: Research, Law, Archives, Ethics, Rutgers UP, 2016, pp. 65-88 - pdf
Week 9
Tues March 4 Black Disability Politics of Mental Institutions [facilitation Group G]
- Vanessa Jackson, “In Our Own Voice: African-American Stories of Oppression, Survival, and Recovery in Mental Health Systems,” International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, Vol. 2002 Download Vanessa Jackson, “In Our Own Voice: African-American Stories of Oppression, Survival, and Recovery in Mental Health Systems,” International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, Vol. 2002 (37 pages) - pdf
- Sami Schalk, “Fighting Psychiatric Abuse: The Black Panther Party and the Black Disability Politics of Mental and Carceral Institutions” (Ch 2), Black Disability Politics, pp. 49-68 Download Sami Schalk, “Fighting Psychiatric Abuse: The Black Panther Party and the Black Disability Politics of Mental and Carceral Institutions” (Ch 2), Black Disability Politics, pp. 49-68 - pdf
- Sami Schalk, “Praxis Interlude One: Anti-Ableist Approaches to Fighting Disabling Violence,” Black Disability Politics, pp. 69-80 Download Sami Schalk, “Praxis Interlude One: Anti-Ableist Approaches to Fighting Disabling Violence,” Black Disability Politics, pp. 69-80 - pdf
Thurs March 6 Community Archives
- Claudia Malacrida, “Contested Memories: Efforts of the Powerful to Silence Former Inmates’ Histories of Life in an Institution for ‘Mental Defectives’,” Disability & Society, Vol. 21, 2006, pp. 397-410 Download Claudia Malacrida, “Contested Memories: Efforts of the Powerful to Silence Former Inmates’ Histories of Life in an Institution for ‘Mental Defectives’,” Disability & Society, Vol. 21, 2006, pp. 397-410 - pdf
- Wendy Duff, Jefferson Sporn, Emily Herron, “Investigating the Impact of the Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada,” Archivaria, Vol. 88, 2019, pp. 122-161 Download Wendy Duff, Jefferson Sporn, Emily Herron, “Investigating the Impact of the Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada,” Archivaria, Vol. 88, 2019, pp. 122-161 - pdf
- Film: Surviving Eugenics (2015) - link
Week 10
Tues March 11 Memory & Memorialization
TBD
Thurs March 13 Peer Review Workshops