Archive: Disability Studies
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Junior Creates Organization to Advocate for More Accessible Practices in High School Debates
Alanna Cronk (C’23) started the organization 1AC-ACCESSIBILITY (1AC), which seeks to make high school debates more accessible to those with disabilities, in the spring of her sophomore year. A speech
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Making Georgetown Communication More Accessible, Inclusive for All
As Georgetown shifted to an online learning environment last spring, there was an increase in virtual communication through websites, email and social media. Libbie Rifkin, teaching professor in the Department of English and associate director of the Disability Studies Program, collaborated with a group of administrators across campus to promote accessible ways to communicate at all university levels through digital means.
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Georgetown Senior Publishes Book on Intersection of Business, Law and Minority Politics
Before graduating this spring, Irene Chun (C’21) will publish her first book Coloring Ivory that discusses minority politics, business and the law. Chun, who is an Interdisciplinary Studies major concentrating in Government and Women and Gender Studies, combined personal essays and case studies from her time as a student at Georgetown and from growing up as a multi-minority.
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Three College Professors Receive Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Awards, Honored for Dedication to Educating Students
Patrick Johnson (Department of Physics), Chandra Manning (Department of History) and Libbie Rifkin (Department of English) will receive the prestigious Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award at Faculty Convocation. This award is given to those faculty members who have demonstrated that they are exceptional educators who are deeply committed to enriching the undergraduate experience.
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Social Impact Nonprofit Honors Disability Justice Advocate Lydia Brown (C’15) with 2020 Beacon Award
Los Angeles-based Social Impact Nonprofit Let’s Talk LD awarded Lydia Brown, faculty in the Disability Studies Program, this year’s Beacon Award for their work as an advocate, organizer, educator, attorney, strategist and writer.
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Georgetown Student Works to End Stigma Against Disabilities in Kazakhstan
This past summer, Madeleine Gibbons-Shapiro (C’21) conducted a social impact assessment of a café that employs intellectually disabled individuals in Kazakhstan. Because of her study, this impressive café can begin to work to expand its operation more widely across the country.
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Lydia X.Z.Brown (C’15) Returns to Teach in Disability Studies for 2020
Brown, an internationally significant disability justice activist, currently co-leads a project on algorithmic fairness and disability rights at the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown’s law school. More broadly, their work has focused on violence against multiply-marginalized disabled people, especially institutionalization, policing, and incarceration.
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Disability Studies Learning in Practice Fellowships Awarded
With the support from the Provost’s Innovation in Teaching award, the Disability Studies program has granted three Learning In Practice Fellowships to Madeleine Gibbons-Shapiro (C’21), Kenna Chick (C’20), and graduate student Jinseul Jun are among the recipients.
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College Establishes Minor in Disability Studies
Thanks in large part to a wave of student activism, Georgetown has become the country’s first Jesuit university to establish an academic minor in disability studies.
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Course Cluster Challenges Thinking on Disability
Disability studies is an emerging field that critically analyzes the concept of disability across different cultures, time periods and academic disciplines. It raises challenging questions about the way we define physical and mental abilities, as well as the assumptions we make in designing and talking about our world.
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