Category: Research

Teaching Disability History: Lessons from Franklin & Marshall College’s Archives and Museum

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with Jocelyn Chow, Maggie Connors, Emma Riggs, Liddy Schulz  Imagine discovering history not just from the pages of a textbook but through the real, tangible traces left behind—a photograph, a newspaper clipping, an artifact from another time. This was the path my students and I took in spring 2023, as we explored U.S. disability history… Continue Reading Teaching Disability History: Lessons from Franklin & Marshall College’s Archives and Museum

Between and Beyond Objects: Narrating Eugenics in a Museum Collection

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On the left, we can see a compilation of cozy furniture, little porcelain figurines, and photos of laughing nurses; on the right, a rusty bedstead beneath a picture of a sterile, monotonous dormitory. These artifacts, collected from Stretered, a former institution for persons with intellectual disabilities in western Sweden, are set up to irritate the… Continue Reading Between and Beyond Objects: Narrating Eugenics in a Museum Collection