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We are the Disability History Association. Follow us for all things #DisabilityHistory #DisHist Also follow our blog https://t.co/33irUvcRYj!

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DisabilityHistoryAssociation
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Our Disability Studies in the Non-West weekly feature thread is now available in an easier reading format on a single web-page and savable as a PDF for those who might find this useful!. Link here:
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@DisabilityHistr @WTan_Historian @Tulikaa_ @jiya_pandya @DisabilityHistr Namaste, here is your unroll: Have a good day. 🤖.
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Check out this CFP for a special issue by prior DHA board member Laurel Daen and @JVanHornArtHist on disability in US art history with @UChicagoPress's American Art journal. Submissions due April 1, 2025.
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CORRECTION: With apologies for the error, we're thrilled to announce that @kosho22 won the Research for Justice & Equity Award for 2024!** Congrats!. It was @JamieTyep who won the Public History Award with hon. mens. to the Inst. for Disabilities at Temple and Patricia Chadwick.
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DisabilityHistoryAssociation
9 months
Our 2024 Public History Award goes to Kisha Tracy @kosho22 for designing three digital, public medieval history workshops on disability, gender, sexuality, and race, collating existing resources and producing new pedagogical materials. Make sure to follow her to learn more!.
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RT @Millsatwork: What an honor and How wonderful ! Thank you @DisabilityHistr for a.Special mention. @BloomsburyHist @PFDAgents.
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RT @riacheyne: As always, great stuff for your #DisabilityStudies reading list/library order here!.
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Find Evan's article here: and Selina's book here: Janet's book can be found at this link as well: Congrats to all our winners, and thank you for the work you do!.
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DisabilityHistoryAssociation
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Finally, our 2024 special mentions, which also feature incredible work! @Millsatwork's Life Unseen with @BloomsburyPub is the special mention for the Book Award and @EvanPSullivan's article on "Sound Citizenship" is the mention for the Article Award. Congrats to Selina and Evan!.
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DisabilityHistoryAssociation
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Our 2024 Public History Award goes to Kisha Tracy @kosho22 for designing three digital, public medieval history workshops on disability, gender, sexuality, and race, collating existing resources and producing new pedagogical materials. Make sure to follow her to learn more!.
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DisabilityHistoryAssociation
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The 2024 Outstanding Article Award goes to @jaivirdi for her article "Brett and Toby: Asserting the Disabled Gaze" in the @WinterthurMuse Portfolio on the relationship between technology, ownership, power, and Deafness. Check it out here! Congrats, Jai.
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DisabilityHistoryAssociation
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The 2024 Outstanding Book Award goes to Janet Weston for Looking After Miss Alexander from @McGillQueensUP, a beautifully written micro-history which elucidates important ideas about care, intellectual disability and the role of the historian in these stories. Congrats Janet!.
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DisabilityHistoryAssociation
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Amidst the anxiety and chaos of the world right now, we're so fortunate we are able to support the ethical, thoughtful scholarship that this year's DHA award winners embody. Congrats to our winners, announced in this thread! ✨🧵👏🏾.
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RT @LMcMillan90: Absolutely delighted to be the 2024 winner of the Illinois Press/ Disability History Association’s Outstanding Dissertatio….
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RT @BritSportHisSoc: The BSSH are super proud of our Inclusive Communities History Prize. If your #sporthistory project for next year celeb….
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DisabilityHistoryAssociation
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RT @daniel_blackie: Nice!. A special #DisHist-themed issue of JMEH featuring articles by @paulvantrigt, @DrDavidMT + others, some of which….
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DisabilityHistoryAssociation
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✨Thrilled to announce Jamie Tyeptanar as winner of our 2024 Public History Award for incredible work on incarcerated Native peoples at Canton. Honorable mentions to @IODTempleU for their project on Pennhurst & @dismediachik's social history work.✨.
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DisabilityHistoryAssociation
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RT @ICJBhopal: So powerful to build solidarity in Louisiana with @betterbayou @HealthyGulf Descendants Project & NOLA Freedom Forum. See ou….
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DisabilityHistoryAssociation
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Up now on the #AllofUs blog is @StefanieHuntKe1 and Laurel Daen's co-edited series on experiences of disability in Early America. It's our first ever series of essays, and the six put together are a fantastic read! Check it out on our landing page today:
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Corbett O'Toole, our queer disabled elder who has repeatedly forged disability history through her advocacy, activism, and writing, had her accessible van home stolen and is raising funds. Please contribute if you can and do share widely!.
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DisabilityHistoryAssociation
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The DHA's PUBLIC DISABILITY HISTORY AWARD is now open! . If you are making disability history come alive for broad audiences, we'd love to support you and your work. Applications are DUE July 15, 2024. Details can be found on our website:
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RT @IllinoisPress: *IMPORTANT UPDATE* 📢. The submissions deadline has been extended for the Outstanding Dissertation in Disability History….
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