A chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic. How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicenter of COVID-19: New York City. Among those hardest hit by the pandemic, disability communities across the five boroughs have been disproportionately

In 1974, Open Circuits: An International Conference on the Future of Television gathered dozens of prominent artists, curators, academics, writers and television producers to discuss conflicting perspectives on the medium of artists’ video and its cultural impacts. Held at MoMA and sponsored by the Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), the event was considered a watershed moment in media

Meesh Sara Fradkin (CDS Visiting Research Scholar) and Andy Slater are the recipients of a 2024 MAP Fund grant for a sound installation and performance, fiscally sponsored by Experimental Sound Studio. MAP Fund is one of the longest running, private funding sources for new performance works. Experimental Sound Studio is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization dedicated to artistic

Disability studies has gained prominence in recent years, transforming fields ranging from design to literary studies with insurgent approaches to access and representation. The newest volume of Osiris, “Disability and the History of Science,” extends this movement to ask how disability has been a central, if unacknowledged, force in the scientific disciplines and the history of

The NYU Center for Disability Studies announces a new book series “Disability in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine” to be published through Johns Hopkins University Press. CDS Director Mara Mills joins Jaipreet Virdi and Wayne Tan as Series Editors. A banner featuring a graphic illustration of a person’s facial profile. They are wearing dark glasses, a face mask, and their

Book cover for Disability Worlds, featuring a photo of Samantha Myers, a young white woman with short light brown hair, sitting in her wheelchair on a New York City street in front of a large graffiti of brightly-colored large wings painted on dark brown wood. Her arms are raised to match the shape of the wings, as if she

Mara Mills is co-investigator on an international team of researchers, led by Professor Stephanie Lloyd of Université Laval, that received a 5-year, $612,000 grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Together with co-investigators Isabelle Boisvert (audiologist, University of Sydney), Jennifer Campos (psychologist, University of Toronto), Michele Friedner (anthropologist, University of Chicago), and collaborators Katie

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.