2023

NEH Dangers and Opportunities of Technology Grant Mara Mills and Michele Friedner (University of Chicago) have been awarded one of the inaugural Dangers and Opportunities of Technology grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Their collaborative humanities research project, “The Global Cochlear Implant: Provincializing ‘Brain Implants’ Through Disability Technocultures,” will run from 2023-2025 and will result […]

Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is an expansive volume presenting the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez have convened leading scholars, artists, and activists to explore the ways disability shapes authorship, transforming cultural production, aesthetics, and media.

Film Quarterly explores new directions in disability film and media in a two-part webinar discussing its special dossier “The New Disability Media” (Winter 2022) co-presented with NYU’s Center for Disability Studies and Center for Media, Culture & History.   

The NYU Center for Disability Studies is pleased to welcome Meesh as a visiting assistant research scholar! Meesh Sara Fradkin is a PhD candidate in Music (interdisciplinary music technology track) at McGill University. Meesh is also a researcher at The Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory, The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and