Recent Dissertations in Disability History

The DHA would like to congratulate the authors of these recent dissertations in disability history. List compiled by Penny L. Richards.

  • Adamson, David J. (PhD, St. Andrews 2005): “Insanity, Idiocy, and Responsibility: Criminal Defences in Northern England and Southern Scotland, 1660-1830” (Advisor: Professor Robert A. Houston).
  • Atherton, Martin (PhD, De Montfort 2005): “Choosing to be Deaf: Leisure and Sport in the Deaf Community of North-west England, 1945-95” http://www.uclan.ac.uk/host/ifi/profiles/martin.htm.
  • Brown, William H. (PhD, University of Toronto): “Making Representation: Dr. Helen MacMurchy and the ‘Feebleminded’ in Ontario, 1909-1919” http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/NR02922.
  • Choby, Alexandra A. (PhD, UC-San Francisco/UC-Berkeley): “A Long Road to Truth: Diagnosing and Governing Epilepsy” http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3207266.
  • Drott, Edward Robertson (PhD, University of Pennsylvania): “To Forget the Self: Aging and Senility in Medieval Japanese Buddhism” http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3179726.
  • Flaugh, Christian (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison): “On Normalities: Freaks of Culture, Bodies, and Ability in the Late Twentieth-Century Francophone Novel” http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3175430.
  • Greenwald, Brian H. (PhD, George Washington U): “Alexander Graham Bell through the Lens of Eugenics, 1883-1922 (Charles Benedict Davenport)” http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3199914.
  • Janak, Edward A. (Ph.D., University of South Carolina): “John Eldred Swearingen and the Development of the Public High School in South Carolina.” http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3098673.
  • Joslin, Noel J. (PhD, Northumbria at Newcastle 2005): “The British and Death and the English Victorian Pauper Lunatic Asylum” (Supervisor: Dr. Michael A. Sutton).
  • *Johnstone, Androulla (PhD, Southampton 2005): “The Asylums of Southern England” (Supervisors: Professor Roger Richardson and Dr. Mark A. Allen).
  • *Johnstone, Androulla (PhD, Winchester 2006): “The English Provincial Asylum 1845-1930: An Archaeological and Functional Study” (Supervisors: Professor Roger Richardson and Dr. Mark A. Allen).
  • Lewis, Halle Gayle (PhD, SUNY-Binghamton): “‘Cripples are not the Dependents one is Led to Think’: Work and Disability in Industrializing Cleveland, 1861-1916 (Ohio)” http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3153762.
  • McGowan, Kathryn Rosemary Brigidt (PhD, Case Western Reserve University): “A Body History of Polio-related Impairments in the United States: How Individuals' Experiences of their Polio-Related Impairments Responded to Socio-Cultural Shifts in Contemporary American Society” http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3158189.
  • Millett, Ann (PhD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill): “Spectacular Spectacles: The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art (Joel-Peter Witkin, Diane Arbus, Marc Quinn, Mary Duffy, Cheryl Marie Wade)” http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3190287.
  • Moeschen, Sheila C. (PhD, Northwestern University): “Benevolent Actors and Charitable ‘Objects’: Physical Disability and the Theatricality of Charity in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century America” http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3177779.
  • *Pemberton, Neil (PhD, Manchester 2005): “Holiness, Civilisation, and the Victorian Deaf: A Social History of Signing and Speech in Late Victorian England, 1865-95” (Supervisor: Professor John V. Pickstone).
  • *Pemberton, Neil (PhD, Manchester 2005): “The Construction of Deafness in Britain, circa 1870-1940” (Supervisor: Professor John V. Pickstone).
  • Pennings, Mark (PhD, University of Melbourne 200?): “Radical Minds: Schizophrenia, Ecstasy, Art and the New Reality of the Sixties” http://www.ahcca.unimelb.edu.au/research/theses.html.
  • Perry, Heather R. (PhD, Indiana University): “Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Society in World War I Germany” http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3183470.
  • Reid, Fiona (PhD, West of England 2005): “‘Have You Forgotten Yet?’: Shell Shock, Trauma, and the Memory of the Great War in Britain, 1914-30” (Supervisors: Professor June Hannam and Dr. Michael Richards) http://www.glam.ac.uk/hass/1451/410.
  • Rivera-Cordero, Victoria (PhD, Princeton University): “Subjectividad, Enfermedad, y Escritura: El Discurso de la Enfermedad y la Construccion de la Identidad en la Temprana Edad Moderna Espanola” http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3169811.
  • Taff, Steven David (PhD, University of Missouri-Saint Louis): “The Phenomenology of the Backward Child: A History of School Failure in Progressive Era America, 1890-1930” http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3177452.
  • Toms, Jonathan P. (PhD, London 2005): “Mental Hygiene to Civil Rights: MIND and the Problematic of Personhood, c1900-c1980” (Supervisors: Dr. Michael R. Neve and Dr. Rhodri Hayward) http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/activities/projects/toms/.
  • Ward, Susan Mechele (PhD, Regent University): “Rhetorically Constructing a ‘Cure’: FDR's Dynamic Spectacle of Normalcy (Franklin D. Roosevelt)” http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3159818.
  • Wiener, Diane Rochelle (PhD, University of Arizona): “Narrativity, Emplotment, and Voice in Autobiographical and Cinematic Representations of ‘Mentally Ill’ Women, 1942-2003” http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3161668.

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