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As part of the internationally renowned Syracuse International Film Festival (SYRFILMFEST), the Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law and Disability Studies will sponsor a series of disability-themed films and discussions on Saturday, Oct. 15, in the Watson Theater in SU’s Menschel Media Center, and at the Palace Theater in Syracuse’s Eastwood section. Three documentary films and three...Read More

The Division of Student Affairs has appointed Diane R. Wiener as the first director of SU’s new Disability Cultural Center. Wiener will begin on Oct. 17. “Dr. Wiener is to fill an important role at Syracuse University,” says Thomas V. Wolfe, senior vice president and dean of student affairs. “With the assistance of our partners across campus,...Read More

The Renée Crown University Honors Program, an all-University program administered by Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences, announces the appointment of Stephen Kuusisto as its new director. Kuusisto is an accomplished poet, scholar and disability rights advocate who comes to SU from the University of Iowa, where he has served as professor of English and...Read More

Michael Gill. “Disability Counter Narratives: Transforming Ideas Among High School Students.” Disability Studies Quarterly. Fall 2004.Read More

Eunjung Kim is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Disability Studies.Read More

Michael Gill is an associate professor of disability studies in the department of Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University, USA. He is the disability studies minor advisor. Gill is the author of the book Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency (University of Minnesota Press 2015). He co-wrote, with Alexis Boylan, Anna Mae...Read More