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Thursday, July 29, 2021
Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen, along with her co-authors Marnina Gonick and Tuyen Bui, recently published their latest article Engaging girls with disabilities through cellphilming: Reflections on participatory visual research as a means of countering violence in the Global South in the journal Global Studies of Childhood. This article uses a critical... More
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
We're thrilled to welcome two new faculty members to our department this year Dr. Manjeet Birk and Dr. Fady Shanouda! Manjeet Birk Manjeet Birk (she/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work centres the lived experience of racialized and Indigenous girls and women in Canada. Her research focuses on women’s organizing, social justice and... More
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
We enthusiastically invite applications for a PhD fellowship in Critical Disability Studies at Carleton University. The objective of this fellowship is to provide an opportunity for training a doctoral student in Critical Disability Studies with a focus on working with women and girls with disabilities in Vietnam. The successful candidate will... More
Friday, February 19, 2021
The Department of Housing and Residence Life Services sends out a survey to all students living in Residence that gives them the opportunity to submit a nomination for their Favourite Faculty member. This survey simply stated: Who is the faculty member, and why are they so great? Our Masters student, Caitlin Manuel has been... More
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Gagan Dhaliwal is a first-year student majoring in Cognitive Sciences and was taking our DBST1001A course - Intro to Disability Studies. “I took the course on disability studies as an elective and, to be honest, did not think much of it. Many concepts, ideas and definitions were introduced throughout the course, ultimately changing my... More
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Megan Rivers-Moore interviews one of our students about why they picked Carleton and Women's and Gender Studies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu-EncCLIHY&list=WL&index=11&t=27s ... More
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Our colleague Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen is presenting the keynote address at the Music, Mediation and Disability Online Symposium next weekend! Her talk is titled "Towards decolonial disability studies: Engaging theory and praxis from the Global South". The Symposium is Saturday and Sunday, November 21 - 22 Dr. Nguyen's talk is scheduled for Sunday,... More
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Congratulations to our Contract Instructor, Alan Santinele Martino for defending this thesis with the department of Sociology at McMaster University on October 8th! His dissertation is entitled "The Romantic and Sexual Lives of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in Ontario, Canada" Alan's research focused on the romantic and sexual lives of... More
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Study results appear in Dr. Spagnuolo’s newly co-authored article, “Neoliberal methods of disqualification: a critical examination of disability-related education funding in Canada”. ... More
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Dr. Natalie Spagnuolo has a new publication in the The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism. Her co-authored chapter is titled “Unsettling realities and rethinking displacement: Transforming settlement services for refugees, migrants and people with intellectual disabilities”. The complete citation information can be found below.... More
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Dr. Natalie Spagnuolo recently received second place for the 2018 Disability History Association Journal Article/Book Chapter Award for her chapter 'Mobilising historical knowledge: Locating the disability archive', in K. Ellis, R. Garland-Thompson, M. Kent & R. Robertson (eds.), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability: Looking Towards... More
Thursday, November 21, 2019
The Canadian Journal of Children's Rights has recently published a themed issue on Disability and Children's Rights co-edited by Carleton's Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen and Dr. Claudia Mitchell (McGill). It is available online... More
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