New book series: Disability Histories
DISABILITY HISTORIES
a new book series from the
University of Illinois Press
Disability Histories, a new book series from the
University of Illinois Press, seeks scholarship that explores the lived
experiences of individuals and groups from a broad range of societies,
cultures, time periods, and geographic locations, who either identified as
disabled or were considered by the dominant culture to be disabled. We conceive
of disability and disabled experiences broadly and seek to include scholarship
that spans a range of embodiments, including the emerging field of mad studies.
We are especially interested in scholarship that not only employs innovative
approaches to using disability—in constant interaction with systems of race,
class, gender, and sexuality—as an analytical tool to deepen our
understanding of larger power relations, ideologies, and institutions, but also
engages in meaningful dialogue with other subdisciplines within history, such
as legal and political histories, social histories, histories of technology,
science, and medicine, histories of the body and sexuality, and histories of
the development of capitalism and imperialism.
Comparative, cross-cultural, and transnational
submissions by both junior and more seasoned scholars are encouraged.
Series co-editors:
Kim E. Nielsen (kim.nielsen2@utoledo.edu)
and Michael A. Rembis (marembis@buffalo.edu)
Series submissions should include: a 2 page vita and a
5-10 page book synopsis that includes a brief chapter outline, a discussion of
competing books and likely audiences, and a discussion of how the project
advances the aims of the series.
Series books include:
- Susan Burch and Michael A. Rembis, eds., Disability
Histories (forthcoming).
- Michael A. Rembis, Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and
Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. [Paperback, Feb.
2013].