Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, McGill University
PhD, University of California Los Angeles
Masters of Information Management and Systems, University of California Berkeley
With a background in digital scientific archives and art, I am interested in the history of disability, specifically erased or partial narratives of disabled people in archival / historical material. My research, located at the intersection of critical archival studies and disability studies, focuses on the ways in which disabled people use, experience, and understand themselves through archives as well as how we can tell histories of disability when there is little or no archival evidence. Through addressing the history of natural history museums and their archives, I trace the conflation of disability, race and animality within natural history and center inquiry on how ableism is a central tenet of colonialism. Outside academia, I am involved in disability justice, design justice, and social justice technologies.
Statement of Positionality: I am a Disabled and chronically ill white, queer, non-binary person from a middle class background. Pronouns: they/them.