EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Director, Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Middlebury College (2009-present)
Associate professor, Middlebury College (2009-present)
Lead curator, Every Body: A History of Disability in America, Smithsonian National Museum of American History (Fall 2008-2009)
Research Associate, Smithsonian National Museum of American History (Fall 2007-2009)
Visiting Associate Professor, The Ohio State University (Fall 2007-2008)
Lecturer, University of Aberdeen [Scotland] (January 2007-Sept. 2007)
Visiting professor of American Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (2004)
Associate Professor, Gallaudet University (2000–2006)
Assistant Professor, Gallaudet University (1998–2000)
Visiting Instructor, Gallaudet University (1995–1998)
SELECT HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS
Fulbright Scholar, Czech Republic (Spring 2004)
Gallaudet Encyclopedia Fund Award, Gallaudet University (Fall 2001)
Mellon Seminar Fellowship, Georgetown University (1999)
Piepho Award, Georgetown University (1998)
Clerc Cultural Award, Gallaudet University (1998)
Gallaudet Research Institute Award, Gallaudet University (1998)
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
At the Intersections: Deaf Meets Disability Studies, Co-edited with Alison Kafer, Gallaudet University Press, 2010.
The Encyclopedia of American Disability History, Editor in-chief, Facts on File, 2009.
Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson. Co-authored with Hannah Joyner, University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Nominated for multiple awards.
Women and Deafness: Double Visions. Co-edited with Brenda Brueggemann, Gallaudet University Press, 2006.
Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900–World War II. New York University Press, 2002.
“Who’s Not Here?: Lessons in American Disability Studies,” Radical History Review, Co-authored with Ian Sutherland, 94 (Winter 2006): 127-147.
The Public Historian: Special Issue on Disability History (Spring 2005). Contributing editor with Katherine Ott.
“In a Different Voice: Sign Language Preservation and America's Deaf Community,” Bilingual Research Journal 24, no. 4 (Fall 2001): 443–67.
“Transcending Revolutions: The Tsars, the Soviets and Deaf History,” Journal of Social History 34, no. 2 (December 2000): 393–402.
“Deaf Poet’s Society: Subverting the Heating Paradigm.” Literature and Medicine 16, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 121–134.
“‘Beautiful, Though Deaf’: The Deaf American Beauty Pageant,” In Double Visions: Multiple Approaches to Women and Deafness, Gallaudet University Press, 2006.
“Double Jeopardy: Women, Deafness, and Deaf Education,” In Literacy and Deaf People: Contextual and Cultural Approaches, Brenda Brueggemann, ed. Gallaudet University Press, 2004.
“Reading Between the Signs: Defending Deaf Culture in Early Twentieth Century America,” In The New Disability History, New York University Press, 2001.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
My current research project, which is in the early development phase, examines race, ethnicity, disability, and the nation. In the past year I have contributed to the development of a traveling exhibit on the history of disability in America for the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Teaching interests include: race; ethnicity; disability and deaf studies (global and U.S.); gender and sex; 19th and 20th century U.S. and Russian history (social, cultural); material culture.