Disability Studies Quarterly
Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) is the journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). Founded in 1980, the DSQ is an Open Access, multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities, disability rights advocates, creative writers, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities. It represents the full range of methods, epistemologies, perspectives, and content that the multidisciplinary field of disability studies embraces. DSQ is committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and to promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society (ISSN: 1041-5718; eISSN: 2159-8371).
Current Editors
Dr. Jeff Brune is an Associate Professor of History at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. He is the co-editor, with Daniel J. Wilson, of Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity. He is now working on a history of the fear of welfare fraud in nineteenth-century American political culture and the intersection of disability, race, and gender in welfare discourse. He has also published in African American Review and in Disability Studies Quarterly, where he edited a forum about the legacy of Erving Goffman’s Stigma. He has received a yearlong residential research fellowship at the Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies at Syracuse University and a Priority Grant from the Gallaudet Research Institute. Jeff loves the work of editing and is excited about collaborating with other scholars while working for DSQ.
Dr. Donald Grushkin is a professor of Deaf Studies at the California State University – Sacramento. He earned his doctorate at the University of Arizona with a degree in Language, Reading and Culture. He has published on Deaf culture and community, including topics centering around literacy, Deafhood, hard of hearing people and signed language linguistics. Donald engages in social media, having been a vlogger under his website, Dr. DonG’s Deafhood Discourses as well as YouTube, and currently is active both on Facebook, and as a writer on Quora, where he answers questions on Deaf culture and signed language linguistics. Donald is also the proud co-editor of Deaf Empowerment: Resistance and Decolonization.
Past Editorial Teams
Past Editorial Teams and Affiliations
2018-2022
- Dr. Elizabeth Drewer Olson, Central Connecticut State University
- Dr. Brenda Jo Brueggemann, University of Connecticut
- Kelsey Henry, Assistant Editor
2015-2018
- Dr. Kim E. Nielsen, University of Toledo
- Dr. Allyson Day, University of Toledo
2015
- Michael Rembis, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Tanja Aho, American University
2012-2014
- Bruce Henderson, Ithaca College
- Noam Ostrander, University of Minnesota at Duluth
2007-2012
- Brenda Brueggemann, University of Connecticut
- Scot Danforth, Chapman University
2006-2007
- Brenda Brueggemann, University of Connecticut
- Stephen Kuusisto, Syracuse University
- Scot Danforth, Chapman University
2004-2006
- Beth Haller, Towson University
- Corinne Kirchner, Columbia University
1995-2003
- David Pfeiffer, Suffolk University
1995
- Beth Haller, Towson University
- Janet Boudreau
1982-2004
- Irving Zola, Brandeis University
1980-1982
- Natalie Allon, Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science
- Margaret Zahn, North Carolina State University
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