Andrew J. Hogan discusses his new book, Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions.
Episode Image: Cover of Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions by Andrew J. Hogan. The background is light green, with a blue line underlining the title.
Andrew J. Hogan, PhD is the Fr. Henry W. Casper, SJ Professor in History and a Professor in the Departments of History and Medical Humanities at Creighton University. Hogan’s current research examines the history of disability and racial/ethnic minority recruitment and inclusion efforts in US health professions since 1960. Other publications by Hogan include Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016) and peer-reviewed articles in journals including the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Isis, Social Science & Medicine, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Premio a la Historia Pública de la Discapacidad 2024
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How are you making disability history come alive for people? What projects have you been working on? What excites you in this work? Please share with us what you know!
We are the Disability History Association and we want to reward your work. The awardee will receive $300 (US) and a one-on-one conversation with a fabulous public historian. We are currently accepting applications for our award that supports public history projects related to disability and disabled people. This award recognizes excellent disability history work intended primarily for broad audiences (not academic audiences). The award is also meant to further the project’s reach and goals. The award may go to an individual or group who has completed a project or to an individual or group who is planning on completing a project. We give this award every two years, and we encourage you to apply now.
What is public history? It is often community-engaged and is always about sharing stories with larger audiences and everyday people. This award seeks to support people who are passionate about bringing history to life with resources like original documents, everyday objects, research by other people or themselves, and oral history interviews. Public history can take many forms.It can include, but is not limited to:
publications,
documentary films,
digital and web projects,
exhibitions, or
public programs such as an educational workshop.
Qualifications:
Anyone may apply for this award or nominate another person’s or group’s project.
Membership in DHA is encouraged but not required for consideration.
Community-based and community-led disability history projects from the last two years are especially welcome.
We seek applications from individuals, teams, organizations and especially projects that meaningfully engage disability and BIPOC communities.
Partnerships with academic institutions, such as schools or universities, are not not required.
Projects may address any and all time periods and geographic regions.
All applications must be in English, including for projects done in another language. If the project is not originally conveyed in written English, please provide a full translation.
TO APPLY: Submit the following materials by email by July 15, 2024, 11:59 PM EST, to the Award Committee Co-Chair Anne Parsons, aeparson@uncg.edu. Please submit a written document, video, or audio file that answers the below questions to the best of your knowledge.
Questions to Address:
What do you want people to know about the history you have found?
What did you learn and what is important for people to know?
If you are just beginning the project, how would you use the money? If this is for a completed project, ignore this question.
How have you worked with disability communities to research this topic (whether with documents or living people)? If you are just starting the project, how do you plan to work with disability communities?
Explain your access considerations for the project and how you’ve made it physically or programmatically accessible.
Who helped you on this project? Who did you collaborate with, if anyone? Please list your primary collaborators and participants, noting their affiliations (if any) and roles. The DHA is especially seeking applications from individuals and organizations that engage disability and BIPOC communities.
What sources did you find helpful on the project? Share at least five sources.
Supporting Materials:
Please submit no more than five supporting materials related to the project that you have. If you do not have any materials, that is fine. These materials could include:
1. Drafts, image files, pictures, links, or documents about the project
2. Media coverage about the project
3. Copies of public feedback about the project
4. Supporting letters from colleagues, partners, community members
Submission Guidelines:
You may submit your application or nomination in three ways: a written document, a video, or an audio file. Applicants can also submit materials in another format if that is more accessible.
Written Document – Please write 500-1,500 words and save the document in a Word or a PDF file. Then, email the document to aeparson@uncg.edu.
Or
Video/Audio File – You may create the video/audio however you would like, but please limit it to 10 minutes. Then, save the audio/video file to a cloud-based storage folder and send the link to the file to aeparson@uncg.edu Please be sure to change the permissions to make the file viewable.
If you are nominating someone else, please answer the above questions to the best of your knowledge and provide the contact information for the project or the people who worked on the project. We will announce the award winner in August 2024.
Award Committee
Nicole Belolan, Perri Meldon, Corbett O’Toole, Katherine Ott, and Anne E. Parsons
Premio a la Historia Pública de la Discapacidad 2024
¿Cómo se hace para que la historia de la discapacidad cobre vida para las personas? ¿En qué proyectos has estado trabajando? ¿Qué te apasiona de este trabajo? ¡Por favor comparte con nosotros lo que sabes!
Somos la Asociación Historia de la Discapacidad y queremos premiar tu trabajo. El premiado recibirá 300 dólares (EE.UU.) y una conversación individual con un fabuloso historiador público. Actualmente estamos aceptando solicitudes para nuestro premio que apoya proyectos de historia pública relacionados con la discapacidad y las personas discapacitadas. Este premio reconoce el excelente trabajo sobre la historia de la discapacidad destinado principalmente a un público amplio (no académico). El premio también tiene como objetivo promover el alcance y los objetivos del proyecto. El premio puede otorgarse a una persona o grupo que haya completado un proyecto o a una persona o grupo que esté planeando completar un proyecto. Otorgamos este premio cada dos años y le animamos a presentar su solicitud ahora.
¿Qué es la historia pública? A menudo participa la comunidad y siempre se trata de compartir historias con audiencias más amplias y gente común. Este premio busca apoyar a personas apasionadas por darle vida a la historia con recursos como documentos originales, objetos cotidianos, investigaciones realizadas por otras personas o por ellos mismos y entrevistas de historia oral. La historia pública puede tomar muchas formas. Puede incluir, entre otras:
publicaciones,
películas documentales,
proyectos digitales y web,
exposiciones, o
programas públicos como un taller educativo.
Calificaciones:
Cualquiera puede postularse a este premio o nominar el proyecto de otra persona o grupo.
Se recomienda la membresía en DHA, pero no es un requisito para su consideración.
Los proyectos de historia de la discapacidad basados y dirigidos por la comunidad de los últimos dos años son especialmente bienvenidos.
Buscamos solicitudes de individuos, equipos, organizaciones y especialmente proyectos que involucren significativamente a las comunidades de discapacidad y BIPOC.
No se requieren asociaciones con instituciones académicas, como escuelas o universidades.
Los proyectos pueden abordar todos y cada uno de los períodos de tiempo y regiones geográficas.
Todas las solicitudes deben estar en inglés, incluso para proyectos realizados en otro idioma. Si el proyecto no se transmite originalmente en inglés escrito, proporcione una traducción completa.
PARA SOLICITAR: Envíe los siguientes materiales por correo electrónico antes del 15 de julio de 2024 a las 11:59 p. m. EST a la copresidenta del comité de adjudicación, Anne Parsons, aeparson@uncg.edu. Envíe un documento escrito, video o archivo de audio que responda las siguientes preguntas según su leal saber y entender.
Preguntas a abordar:
1. ¿Qué quieres que la gente sepa sobre la historia que has encontrado?
2. ¿Qué aprendiste y qué es importante que la gente sepa?
3. Si recién estás comenzando el proyecto, ¿cómo usarías el dinero? Si se trata de un proyecto terminado, ignore esta pregunta.
4. ¿Cómo ha trabajado con comunidades de personas con discapacidad para investigar este tema (ya sea con documentos o con personas vivas)? Si recién está comenzando el proyecto, ¿cómo planea trabajar con las comunidades de discapacitados?
5. Explique sus consideraciones de acceso para el proyecto y cómo lo hizo accesible física o programáticamente.
6. ¿Quién te ayudó en este proyecto? ¿Con quién colaboraste, si es que hubo alguien? Enumere sus principales colaboradores y participantes, indicando sus afiliaciones (si las hubiera) y funciones. La DHA está buscando especialmente solicitudes de personas y organizaciones que interactúen con las comunidades de personas con discapacidad y BIPOC.
7. ¿Qué fuentes le resultaron útiles para el proyecto? Comparta al menos cinco fuentes.
Materiales de apoyo:
No envíe más de cinco materiales de apoyo relacionados con el proyecto que tiene. Si no tienes ningún material, está bien. Estos materiales podrían incluir:
Borradores, archivos de imágenes, fotografías, enlaces o documentos sobre el proyecto.
Cobertura mediática sobre el proyecto
Copias de comentarios públicos sobre el proyecto.
Cartas de apoyo de colegas, socios y miembros de la comunidad.
Directrices para el envío:
Puede enviar su solicitud o nominación de tres maneras: un documento escrito, un video o un archivo de audio. Los solicitantes también pueden enviar materiales en otro formato si les resulta más accesible.
Documento escrito: escriba entre 500 y 1500 palabras y guarde el documento en un archivo Word o PDF. Luego, envíe el documento por correo electrónico a aeparson@uncg.edu.
O
Archivo de video/audio: puede crear el video/audio como desee, pero limítelo a 10 minutos. Luego, guarde el archivo de audio/video en una carpeta de almacenamiento basada en la nube y envíe el enlace al archivo a aeparson@uncg.edu. Asegúrese de cambiar los permisos para que el archivo sea visible.
Si está nominando a otra persona, responda las preguntas anteriores lo mejor que pueda y proporcione la información de contacto del proyecto o de las personas que trabajaron en el proyecto. Anunciaremos el ganador del premio en agosto de 2024.
Comité de premiación
Nicole Belolan, Perri Meldon, Corbett O’Toole, Katherine Ott y Anne E. Parsons
¿Preguntas? Visite el sitio web de la DHA [https://dishist.org/] para obtener detalles adicionales sobre la DHA o comuníquese con la Dra. Anne Parsons en aeparson@uncg.edu. También puede ver esta convocatoria de solicitudes en el sitio web del premio: https://dishist.org/?page_id=1230.
The Disability History Association (DHA) promotes the relevance of disability history and facilitates research, publication, conference travel, and public history initiatives related to disability history.
The Disability History Association annually confers two publication awards: the Outstanding Book Award and the Outstanding Article/Book Chapter Award. Information about how to apply for each award, as well as past winners, can be found below.
Outstanding Book Award
As part of the Association’s 2024 Award Series, the DHA Award Committee invites entries for its thirteenth annual Outstanding Book Award. The amount of the award is $300. The winning book, as well as the book receiving the honorable mention, will be announced in September 2024.
Eligibility: Committee members welcome monographs and edited collections, provided the book is new, original scholarship and published in English. The award is open to authors writing across all geographic areas and time periods whose book was first published between January 1 and December 31, 2023. Members of the DHA Board of Directors are not eligible to apply.
Submission Procedure: In order to be considered, please send the following to the DHA Director of Awards, Dr. Jenifer Barclay (barclay7@buffalo.edu) and Book Award Chair Dr. Wayne Tan (tan@hope.edu) by May 1, 2024:
1. a brief cover letter that includes a full bibliographic citation for the book; and
2. an electronic copy of the book in text-based .pdf or .doc file format compatible with screen reading software for the review committee.
The members of the Award Committee understand that copyright rules apply and will use the electronic copy for the sole purpose of selecting a winner. Books that are not provided in accessible electronic formats for screen reading software in a timely manner will not be considered for the prize.
Applicants will also be required to send six print copies of the book to the members of the Book Award Committee. After you submit your cover letter and electronic copy of the book, the Book Award Co-Chairs will be in contact with you to arrange for the distribution of the hard copies. If you are concerned that you will not be able to provide hard copies of the book, please let the Book Award Co-Chairs know. Please direct any questions to the DHA Director of Awards (Jenifer Barclay, barclay7@buffalo.edu) or Book Award Chair (Wayne Tan, tan@hope.edu ).
Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award
As part of the Association’s 2024 Award Series, the DHA is pleased to invite entries for its thirteenth annual Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award competition. The winning article or book chapter, as well the article or book chapter receiving honorable mention, will be announced in September 2024.
Eligibility: The award committee welcomes entries that feature new and original history of disability scholarship. To be considered, submissions must have significant historical content.
This $200 award is open to authors writing across all geographic areas and time periods. The publication must be in English, with first publication taking place between January 1 and December 31, 2023. We are conscious that some journals publish an electronic advance copy of articles that can appear a considerable time before the print copy is published; we also recognize that some journals are running behind schedule so that, for example, an article published in October 2023 might actually appear in a 2022 edition. We will endeavor to be sympathetic in cases of “behind schedule” publication. If you feel that your proposed submission should be considered but might be at risk of disqualification, please email Jenifer Barclay (barclay7@buffalo.edu) for further information.
Submission Procedure: Please send one electronic (.pdf or .doc) copy of the article or book chapter to Dr. Jenifer Barclay (barclay7@buffalo.edu) no later than May 15, 2024. In your email, please include the full bibliographic citation of your submission in the Chicago Manual of Style format.
In the interest of modeling best practice in the field of disability history, we require that the electronic file be compatible with screen reading software (see this site, for example, for a guide). We understand that copyright rules apply, and we will only use the electronic copy for the purposes of the DHA Outstanding Publication Award. Manuscripts not provided in accessible electronic formats for screen reading software in a timely manner cannot be considered for the prize.
Members of the DHA Board are not eligible for either of these awards.
Recent Award Winners
2023 Outstanding Book Award
Winner
Wei Yu Wayne Tan, Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity (University of Michigan Press, 2022).
The award committee described Blind in Early Modern Japan as a “carefully constructed work [that] fills in vital historical gaps: early modern era, Japan, and blind history.” It is “an impressive piece of scholarship” that “reveals new understandings of the relationships between medicine/systems of medicine and being blind, as well as how (a non-Western) religion contributed to the meaning and experience of being blind.” Tan “has done a superb job of locating and interpreting from a disability history perspective the experiences of blind people,” showing “how blind people formed an identifiable group of professionals from musicians, acupuncturists, and scholars, among other occupations, with elite males forming their own guild.” The author “paid thoughtful attention to gender and gender hierarchies, demonstrated significant research skills (including multilingual translation and interpretation), and worked diligently to center disabled people as active agents in this account. Through innovative approaches to historical sources and interpretations, Tan traces a different medical system—Sino-Japanese—than the Western biomedical model that dominates most disability history works. In so doing, he reveals new understandings of the relationships between medicine/systems of medicine and being blind, as well as how (a non-Western) religion contributed to the meaning and experience of being blind.”
Honorable Mention
Alexandre Sumpf, The Broken Years: Russia’s Disabled War Veterans, 1904-1921 (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
According to the selection committee’s comments, The Broken Years is “a superbly researched study of disabled veterans in Russia that addresses a significant omission in the historical record and insists on the important role disabled veterans have played in Russia’s past.” Characterized by “extensive, wide-ranging, and multilingual archival work,” the book importantly draws upon “first-person accounts from disabled soldiers’ points of view.” Sumpf is “expansive yet meticulous in his argument,” challenging readers “to consider wars as interlocking rather than discrete and individual: this is particularly useful for disability historians across many regions and eras.”
2023 Outstanding Article/Book Chapter Award
Winner
Jonathyne Briggs, “From Collaboration to Resistance: The Family Dynamic in Autism Literature in Contemporary France,” Contemporary European History 32, no. 2 (2023): 254-69.
From the Committee:
Briggs’ compelling work explores the transitory nature of autism literature in France during the second half of the twentieth century, shifting from primarily medical narratives to stories written by parents and then autistic people themselves. Challeng[ing] predominantly medical narratives and [chart[ing] disability rights discourse, Briggs successfully plac[es] the story of autism literature within the longer history of 20th-century psychiatry.
Honorable Mention:
Michael Rembis, “‘We Had Very Good Times Together’: A Mad People’s History of Life on Asylum Wards in the Early-Twentieth Century United States”
From the Committee:
Rembis uses writing from former asylum inmates – “mad writers” – to investigate the conditions in wards between 1890 and 1950 and explore “inmate” culture that helped many survive institutional confinement and foster connections for 20th-century civil rights movements. He deftly explores the communities forged within wards among inmates – including support groups such as the Suicide Club – using serious and cogent analysis to chart the difficult circumstances of confinement in such wards that prefaced efforts at solidarity. Rembis does “a deeply rigorous and moving job working with patient testimony.”
The Disability History Association is looking for a Director of Records (Secretary)!
Would you like to be involved in supporting and promoting disability history? The Disability History Association’s Board of Directors is seeking applications for a new Director of Records.
The responsibilities of the Director of Records include:
keeping minutes of the Board’s monthly meetings;
managing records and policy documents;
participating in other Board activities as needed;
assisting the Treasurer and President with financial oversight; and
attending monthly Board meetings.
Directors also participate in other projects as required, as well as the general governance of the organization.
The time commitment is approximately 2-5 hours per week, though this may vary. Board members serve a three year term. This is an unpaid, volunteer position.
All Directors must agree to the DHA conflict of interest policy and sign a form. Sitting Directors are ineligible for DHA- and DHA-sponsored awards. You can read our policy in full here.
The DHA commits to anti-oppressive practices. Scholars who are from marginalized and equity-seeking communities are particularly encouraged to apply, as are community-based scholars. The board also welcomes non-historians and non-academics who engage with disability history in their work. Candidates will be contacted by the DHA President for further conversation, and final nominees will be elected by the Board of Directors.
To apply, please contact disability.history@gmail.com with a resume/CV or bio and a brief letter (maximum 1 page) describing your interest by March 24, 2024.
Please feel free to email disability.history@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns.
The Disability History Association is looking for a Treasurer!
Would you like to be involved in supporting and promoting disability history? The Disability History Association’s Board of Directors is seeking applications for a Treasurer.
The responsibilities of the Treasurer include:
initiating, overseeing, and recording business transactions;
monthly oversight of operating cash flow;
preparing annual budgets and quarterly and annual financial reports,
filing taxes;maintaining the DHA’s status as a tax-exempt non-profit corporation; and
attending monthly Board meetings
Directors also participate in other projects as required, as well as the general governance of the organization.
The time commitment is approximately one hour per week, though this may vary. Board members serve a three year term. This is an unpaid, volunteer position.
All Directors must agree to the DHA conflict of interest policy and sign a form. Sitting Directors are ineligible for DHA- and DHA-sponsored awards. You can read our policy in full here.
The DHA commits to anti-oppressive practices. Scholars who are from marginalized and equity-seeking communities are particularly encouraged to apply, as are community-based scholars. The board also welcomes non-historians and non-academics who engage with disability history in their work. Candidates will be contacted by the DHA President for further conversation, and final nominees will be elected by the Board of Directors.
To apply, please contact disability.history@gmail.com with a resume/CV or bio and a brief letter (maximum 1 page) describing your interest.
Please feel free to email disability.history@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns.
The Disability History Association is looking for a Director of Student Affairs!
Would you like to be involved in supporting and promoting disability history? The Disability History Association’s Board of Directors is seeking applications for a Director of Student Affairs.
The responsibilities of the Director of Student Affairs include:
organizing the Disability History Graduate Writing Workshop;
facilitating monthly workshop sessions of the Disability History Graduate Writing Workshop;
participating in the DHA committee to select recipients of our Conference Award; and
attending monthly Board meetings.
Directors also participate in other projects as required, as well as the general governance of the organization.
The time commitment is approximately 2-5 hours per week, though this may vary. Board members serve a two year term. This is an unpaid, volunteer position.
All Directors must agree to the DHA conflict of interest policy and sign a form. Sitting Directors are ineligible for DHA- and DHA-sponsored awards. You can read our policy in full here.
The DHA commits to anti-oppressive practices. Scholars who are from marginalized and equity-seeking communities are particularly encouraged to apply, as are community-based scholars. The board also welcomes non-historians and non-academics who engage with disability history in their work. Candidates will be contacted by the DHA President for further conversation, and final nominees will be elected by the Board of Directors.
To apply, please contact disability.history@gmail.com with a resume/CV or bio and a brief letter (maximum 1 page) describing your interest.
Please feel free to email disability.history@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns.
