Women and Deafness: Double Visions

Contributors

Contributors Emily K. Abel is a professor of public health and women’s studies at the University of California Los Angeles. Her most recent book is Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850–1940 (Harvard University Press, 2000). She currently is writing a history of tuberculosis in Los Angeles. Sharon Barnartt is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Gallaudet University. She is coauthor (with John Christiansen) of Deaf President Now: The 1988 Revolution at Gallaudet University (Gallaudet University Press, 1995), and coauthor (with Richard Scotch) of Disability Protests: Contentious Politics, 1970–1999 (Gallaudet University Press, 2001). She is the cofounder and co-editor, with Barbara Altman, of the journal Research in Social Science and Disability. Her research relates to social movements in the deaf and disability communities, socioeconomic status issues for deaf and disabled men and women, and disability laws and policies. Brenda Jo Brueggemann is an associate professor at Ohio State University (OSU) where she teaches in the English and Women’s Studies departments . She coordinates the Disability Studies minor program and the American Sign Language program at OSU. She has published books, articles , essays, and edited collections in rhetoric, Disability Studies, and Deaf Studies. Susan Burch is an associate professor of history at Gallaudet University. Her research primarily has focused on Deaf cultural histories in America 285 286 Contributors and Russia. She is currently completing a book project in Deaf history with Hannah Joyner and is the editor of the Encyclopedia of American Disability History with Facts on File. Kristen Harmon is an associate professor of English at Gallaudet University . In addition to articles in the fields of Deaf Studies and Ethnography, she has also published short fiction. Arlene Blumenthal Kelly is an associate professor in the Department of ASL and Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University. She has published articles in various books and journals, including Sociolinguistics of Deaf Communities , Disability Studies Quarterly, and the American Annals of the Deaf. Her interests include historical linguistics, fingerspelling, and Deaf history. Jessica Lee completed her MA in Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University and is currently pursuing a PhD in Cultural Anthropology. She is interested in historical and anthropological study of disability, Deaf studies, identity, and gender. Linda Risser Lytle is a professor in the Department of Counseling at Gallaudet University. Her research interests include mental health counseling with deaf people, issues in identity development of deaf women, and issues related to health education and deaf people. She also maintains a private practice. Jennifer Nelson is a professor of English at Gallaudet University. Her interests are in art, English literature, women’s literature, and Disability Studies. Kim E. Nielsen is an associate professor at the University of WisconsinGreen Bay, where she teaches courses in women’s studies and history. She has written extensively on women, politics, and disability in United States history. Her books include The Radical Lives of Helen Keller (New York University Press, 2004) and Helen Keller: Selected Writings (New York University Press, 2005). Contributors 287 Gina A. Oliva is a professor in the Department of Physical Education and Recreation at Gallaudet University and the author of Alone in the Mainstream: A Deaf Woman Remembers Public School (Gallaudet University Press, 2004). Susan Plann is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California Los Angeles and the author of A Silent Minority: Deaf Education in Spain, 1550–1835 (University of California Press, 1997). She has also published numerous articles on Spanish Deaf history. Sara Robinson earned a BA in History and an MA in Deaf Studies with a concentration in Deaf History from Gallaudet University. She is currently a PhD student in the Department of History at the Ohio State University. Margret Winzer is a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. She teaches in the areas of special education and early childhood education. She has published widely in the field of special education, particularly on policy studies, comparative studies, and the history of special education. ...