Deadline Extended for Disability Studies Program, Chicago
The Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Disability Studies at the
University of Illinois at Chicago is still accepting applications from
prospective students for Fall 2005. The deadline for receipt of full
applications has been extended to January 3, 2005.
UIC's Disability Studies Ph.D. program promotes the development of new
scholarly models for understanding disability. Part of this transformative
intellectual approach involves the education of disabled and non-disabled
academicians, researchers, policy experts, and clinicians who will join
with disabled people in the community as active challengers of oppressive
institutions and environments. The program examines how addressing
disability in its full complexity can promote the full participation, self-
determination, and equal citizenship of people with disabilities in
society.
In order to achieve these goals, UIC's Disability Studies program
recognizes disability as a complex phenomenon existing at the intersection
of human differences and social values. We strive to promote an awareness
of disability that supports individuals in shaping their identities and
lives. The program is open to scholars committed to studying how
disability "works" and what can be done to lessen the negative personal
and social consequences of disability. This includes the study of what
disability reveals about society and humanity as well as how it affects
people who fall both within and outside of the category. Scholars from any
discipline can engage in disability studies. A particular strength of the
UIC Disability Studies program is access to diverse faculty mentors and
resources in the health fields, the social sciences, and the humanities.
Students in the program conduct research across impairment, clinical,
social, cultural, ethical, and policy perspectives.
The jointly administered program is based in the College of Applied Health
Sciences and includes faculty and course offerings from three foundational
programs: the departments of Disability and Human Development, Physical
Therapy, and Occupational Therapy. Many program faculty members have
concurrent appointments in other university units, such as English,
Medical Humanities, Community Psychology, Public Health, and Liberal Arts
and Sciences, and students have taken courses offered in many other UIC
programs.
For more information or to arrange a telephone or in-person meeting with
Carol J. Gill, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Studies, please contact:
Sarah Rothberger, MFA
Disability Studies Program Coordinator
College of Applied Health Sciences (MC 626)
1640 West Roosevelt Road, Room 215
Chicago, IL 60608-6904
(312) 996-1508 (voice)
Fax (312) 996-0885
TTY (312) 996-1233
E-mail: sr22@uic.edu
You can also visit our website at:
http://www.ahs.uic.edu/ahs/php/index.php?sitename=dis
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