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 Neal (audiologist, University of Sydney), Emily Kecman (linguist, Macquarie University), Chi Yhun Lo (linguist, Toronto Metropolitan University) and Kelsey Anbuhl (auditory neuroscientist), they seek new understandings of the specific sensory experiences associated with cochlear implants. Approaching the question from the social sciences, humanities, and life

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 in an edited volume about sensory inequalities and implant use in different national and cultural contexts.

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 Technology, and the Disability Archives Lab. She is currently a Leonardo fellow. You can learn more about her work here.

This announcement was originally posted on NYU Steinhardt News on September 20, 2022. NYU Steinhardt is excited to announce that Georgina Kleege will serve as a Dean’s Scholar-in-Residence for the 2022-2023 academic year.  During this time, Kleege will collaborate with the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication (MCC) as well as the NYU Center for Disability Studies, which will celebrate its fifth anniversary this Spring. Kleege’s work at the intersection of accessibility, art, and culture lies at the heart of NYU Steinhardt’s mission to advance education and culture for all. Kleege is Professor Emerita of English at the University of California,