Task Force on Disability

Established as a joint task force with the Disability History Association in June 2008. Term ends June 2011.

Purpose: Gather information about the concerns of historians with disabilities and propose concrete, practical solutions for as many of them as possible. One focus of attention will be the annual meetings of the AHA and the possibilities and costs of making them accessible to all members. But the task force will also attend more broadly to the special problems faced by historians with disabilities in the job market and in all stages of their careers.

Assignment to division: Reports on its work to the Professional Division.

3 AHA members, 2 DHA members

Members

From the AHA:

  • David Weber (Southern Methodist Univ.), chair
  • Leisa Meyer (Coll. of William and Mary)
  • David J. Ulbrich (Ohio Univ.)

From the DHA:

  • Catherine Kudlick (Univ. of California at Davis)
  • Paul Longmore (San Francisco State Univ.)

Staff:

  • Debbie Ann Doyle (administrative manager)

Documents

Historians and the Mobility Question (February 2007)

Enabling History (November 2006)

Disability and the Transformation of Historians' Public Sphere (November 2006)

Disability in History (November 2006)

 

Last Updated: July 7, 2008 2:17 PM