Research
As faculty in UConn’s interdisciplinary Department of Social and Critical Inquiry, I study how ableism threads through every part of our social world from larger cultural and structural patterns to our most intimate lives and everything in between. I have published widely in scholarly journals ranging from medical sociology and gerontology to humanistic disability studies and public writing.
SELECTED Publications
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- Crisis Methods: Centering Care in a Precarious World, SSM-Qualitative Health Research
- Missing Pieces: Engaging Sociology of Disability in Medical Sociology, Journal of Health and Social Behavior
- Don’t look at it as a miracle cure: Contested notions of success and failure in family narratives of pediatric cochlear implantation Social Science & Medicine
- From the Guest Editors: Gender, Disability, and Intersectionality, Gender & Society
- Precarious Plasticity: Neuropolitics, Cochlear Implants, and the Redefinition of Deafness, Science, Technology & Human Values
- They Told Me My Name: Developing a Deaf Identity, Symbolic Interaction
- Parents of deaf children with cochlear implants: a study of technology and community, Sociology of Health and Illness
- The Invisible Frontline: Experiences of Spousal Caregivers During COVID-19, Journal of Applied Gerontology