The Disability History Association, Promoting the Study of the History of Disabilities

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.


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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):  "Narrative, 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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