Category: Research

Classical Liberalism and Ableism in the United States’ Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Clare Tyler and Christian Gonzales on

On January 7, 2022, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gave an interview to ABC News about the current state of the Covid 19 pandemic. When asked about a study showing how effective vaccines are at protecting against severe illness and death from Covid 19, she said: If… Continue Reading Classical Liberalism and Ableism in the United States’ Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Silent Histories:  Writing Disability Back into Renaissance History 

Rosamund Oates on

“People with physical and mental impairments (as we understand them) were no less common in early modern Europe than they are today…So why the continuing silence, particularly in popular histories of the renaissance?” Until relatively recently, histories of renaissance Europe focussed on men who were white, cis-gender and usually heterosexual.   Even more narrowly, those… Continue Reading Silent Histories:  Writing Disability Back into Renaissance History