“Objects become so important in the way I think about a person’s lived experiences of disability.”
In This Episode
Elizabeth Guffey speaks to historian Jaipreet Virdi about disability studies, her “path-breaking” approach to research, and the inclusive and collaborative opportunities social media allows scholars. Virdi’s work centers the people who used and adapted disability objects throughout history. Through rich and detailed examples Virdi illuminates the hidden stories behind these objects.
Download a transcript of episode 7.
Jaipreet Virdi is an historian and Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware. She is author of Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History (University of Chicago Press, 2020) and co-editor of Disability and the Victorians: Attitudes, Legacies, Interventions (Manchester University Press, 2020).
References
- Elizabeth Guffey
- MA in Modern Contemporary Art Criticism and Theory, Purchase College
- Fields of the Future Fellow, Bard Graduate Center
- Jaipreet Virdi 1, 2
- University of Delaware
- Hearing Happiness
- Making Disability Modern
- Smithsonian National Museum of American History
- Becker Medical Library, Washington University in St. Louis
- The Bakken Museum
- American Medical Association
- From the Hands of Quacks
- From the Hands of Quacks
- Robert Bogdan Disability Collection, Yale University
- Deaf History Series
- Disability Stories Hashtag on Twitter
- Alice Wong’s Disability Visibility Project
- Grey Roots Museum & Archives
- Meaford Museum
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