Research Team
Project Coordinators
Faye Ginsburg
Co-Director, Center for Disability Studies; Professor, Anthropology, NYU
Mara Mills
Co-Director, Center for Disability Studies; Associate Professor, Media, Culture & Communication, NYU
Rayna Rapp
Professor Emerita, Anthropology; Affiliate, College of Global Public Health, NYU
Harris Kornstein
Assistant Professor, Public & Applied Humanities, University of Arizona
(PhD, Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU)
Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Researchers
Tommaso Bardelli
Postdoctoral Fellow, Prison Education Program, Social & Cultural Analysis, NYU
Salonee Bhaman
PhD Candidate, History, Yale UniversityYan Grenier
FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology and Center for Disability Studies, NYU
Victoria Netanus Grubbs
Black Studies Collaboratory Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley
(PhD, Media, Culture, and Communication)
Shuting Li
PhD Student, Anthropology, NYU
Nadia Mbonde
PhD Student, Anthropology, NYU
Emily Lim Rogers
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Disability Studies, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University
(PhD, Social & Cultural Analysis, NYU)
Cara Ryan
PhD Candidate, Anthropology, NYU
Aiyuba Thomas
MA Student, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU (Social Entrepreneurship and Racialized Capitalism)
Affiliate Researchers
Arthur Caplan
Professor of Bioethics, Dept. of Population Health, NYU Langone
Co-PI, NYU Covid-19 Research Catalyst Grant
Rachel Fish
Assistant Professor, Teaching & Learning, NYU
Alexandra Freidus
Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership, University of Connecticut
Shannon O’Neill
Curator for Tamiment-Wagner Collections, NYU Special CollectionsSarah G. Vázquez
Doctoral Research Fellow, Anthropology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityEmily Watlington
Assistant Editor, Art in America