CDS Welcomes Two Fulbright Fellows in Disability Arts
The NYU Center for Disability Studies is happy to welcome two Fulbright fellows in disability arts for the 2025/2026 academic year. You can read more about their work below. Júlia Ayerbe is a Spanish-Brazilian contemporary art researcher. Her work focused on dissident corporealities, accessibility, and publishing practices. She is a PhD student in the Art
CDS Welcomes Dr. Kevin Gotkin as Assistant Director
Photo by Cassidy Duhon. Gotkin will contribute to NYU’s disability-centered research, teaching, and partnerships. Following a national search, the NYU Center for Disability Studies (CDS) has hired scholar, organizer, and artist Kevin Gotkin as its inaugural Assistant Director. Gotkin has been a member of the NYU community since 2007 when they began their undergraduate studies
Mara Mills and CDS Awarded $1 Million Grant from Mellon Foundation
The three-year grant will support Mills and the NYU Center for Disability Studies in running the Access for Small Arts Partnerships program. A 2017 gathering that helped spark the ASAP program. Photo by Earl Cabbell. Mara Mills and the NYU Center for Disability Studies (CDS) have been awarded a three-year, $1,045,000 grant from the Mellon
Kevin Gotkin joins CDS as a Postdoctoral Fellow
Kevin Gotkin has been dialed into disability worlds since 2012 as an access ecologist, teacher, writer, artist, and scholar. Before joining the Center for Disability Studies as a Postdoctoral Fellow in September 2025, they led disability economic justice initiatives as Artist-Organizer with Creatives Rebuild New York. From 2016 – 2019, they helped cultivate a broad platform for
New publication: How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic, edited by Mara Mills, Harris Kornstein, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp
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
Exploring Accessibility and Video Art on the 50 year Anniversary of Open Circuits
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