Visiting Scholar
Professor Rembis is the inaugural (2010-2011) visiting professor in the Center for Disability Studies and the Department of History at the University at Buffalo. He came to Buffalo from the University of Notre Dame, where he was a visiting scholar in the Department of American Studies and the Department of History. His work, which has appeared in Disability and Society, Disability Studies Quarterly, Sexuality and Disability, Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, History of Psychology, the Journal of Illinois History, and the edited anthology, Popular Eugenics, has won several awards, including the 2008 Irving K. Zola Award, awarded annually by the Society for Disability Studies to emerging scholars. His first book, Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960, is forthcoming (Spring 2011) from the University of Illinois Press. Professor Rembis earned a Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the PhD in History from the University of Arizona.
Professor Gorman is pleased to be joining the Center for Disability Studies as a Research Fellow for (AY) 2010-2011. Gorman recently completed a three-year Lectureship at the Women and Gender Studies Institute of the University of Toronto, where she served as Undergraduate Coordinator and taught courses on gender and disability, gender and neoliberalism, postcolonial studies, and contemporary social movements. In 2007, Dr. Gorman was a Research Fellow at the Education and Social Research Institute of Manchester Metropolitan University; and in 2005-2006, she held a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada exploring disability, gender, and national liberation struggles in a transnational context, with a specific focus on Kurdish political movements. Gorman completed her doctoral research at the University of Toronto, where she created the first two courses for the university’s emerging Disability Studies concentration.
