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Michael Gill

Michael Gill
Professor
Phone: 315.443.9074
Address: 360 Huntington Hall
Academic Program Area Focus: Cultural Foundations of Education, Disability Studies

Michael Gill is a professor of disability studies in the School of Education at Syracuse University, USA. He is the disability studies minor advisor. Gill is the author of the Allergic Intimacies: Food, Disability, Desire, and Risk (Fordham University Press 2023) and  Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency (University of Minnesota Press 2015). His chapbook Reflections from the Front Porch was published by Finishing Line Press in 2022. He co-wrote, with Alexis Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, and Barbara Gurr, Furious Feminisms: Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road (University of Minnesota Press 2020). He also co-edited, with Cathy Schlund-Vials, Disability, Human Rights, and the Limits of Humanitarianism (Ashgate 2014) and Creating Our Own Lives: College Students with Intellectual Disability (University of Minnesota Press 2023) with Beth Myers.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Disability Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2009
  • M.S. in Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2004
  • B.A. in Literary Studies, Eastern Washington University, 2001
  • A.A. Spokane Falls Community College, 1999.
  • Graduate Concentration in Gender and Women’s Studies. Awarded by the University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006.
  • Certificate in Disability Ethics. Awarded by the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University, and The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, 2004.

Research & Scholarship

Gill's research and teaching interests include feminist and queer disability studies, intellectual disability and sexuality, reproductive justice, food allergies, intersections of gender, race, and science, and masculinity studies.

Honors

  • 2017 Weixlmann Prize (with Nirmala Erevelles), African American Review.

 

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

  • DSP 101, "Introduction to Disability Studies"
  • DSP 424, "Representations of Ability and Disability"
  • DSP 440, "Sociology of Disability"
  • HUM 145, "Introduction to Health Humanities"

Graduate

  • DSP 710, "Bodies and Spaces"
  • DSP 700, "Intellectual Disability and Human Rights"
  • DSP 700, "Abolition and Carceral Politics"