Society for Disability Studies

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Chris Rosa, serves as the City University of New York’s University Assistant Dean for Student Affairs. He joined the CUNY Office of Student Affairs in July 2004 after 11 years of student affairs experience at Queens College. While at Queens, Chris served as its Director of Services for Students with Disabilities, as Director of its Student Support Services Program, as its Affirmative Action Officer, and as a Student Disciplinary Officer. Chris has served as Chair of the CUNY Committee on Student Disability Issues (COSDI), Chair of the U.S. President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities’ (now subsumed under ODEP) Employee Disability Concerns Committee, and as Vice Chair of the New York State Independent Living Council. Chris earned his B.A. in Sociology & Philosophy from Queens College in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2001, with a dissertation entitled “Disability Rites: Constructing American Disability Culture”. A published disability studies scholar, he serves as an adjunct faculty member for CUNY’s Graduate Program in Disability Studies and as the Co-Executive Officer of the Society for Disability Studies’ Executive Offices.