Participant Info
- First Name
- Marissa
- Last Name
- Spear
- Country
- United States
- State
- AR
- marissaspearwrites@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Independent Historian/Scholar
- Website URL
- www.marissaspear.com
- Keywords
- Black Panther Party, Black Power, disability history, medical history
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a disabled writer and independent historian based in Northwest Arkansas. My primary research interest is in the women of the Baltimore Branch of the Black Panther Party and the gendered dynamics of the Black Panther Party and Civil Rights-Black Power Era. My secondary interests include the role of health and disability in social movement history. My essay on disability in children’s historical literature is forthcoming in An American Girl Anthology: Finding Ourselves in the Pleasant Company Universe from the University Press of Mississippi. My historical research has appeared in Contingent Magazine, Nursing Clio, and All of Us.
- Recent Publications
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“‘I Don’t Have Very Much Faith in Doctors’: Black Women, Reproductive Health, and Black Disability Politics.” Nursing Clio, August 2023.
“Reading Disability Back into American Girl.” Nursing Clio, November 2022.
“Know Thy Body, Know Thy Self.” All of Us, October 2020.
Moore R, Callaghan-Koru J, Vincenzo JL, Patton SK, Spear MJ, Alik E, Ramos AP, Takamaru S, McElfish PA, Curran GM. “External Relationships as Implementation Determinants in Community-Engaged, Equity-Focused COVID-19 Vaccination Events.” Frontiers in Health Services. 2024; 4:1338622. https://doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2024.1338622
Purvis RS, Vincenzo JL, Spear MJ, Moore R, Patton SK, Callaghan-Koru J, McElfish PA, Curran GM. “Factors Associated with Marshallese and Hispanic Adults’ Willingness to Receive a COVID-19 Booster Dose.” Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. 2023;14. https://doi.org/10.1177/21501319231171440
Vincenzo JL, Spear MJ, Moore R, Purvis RS, Patton SK, Callaghan-Koru J, McElfish PA, Curran GM. “Reaching Late Adopters: Factors Influencing COVID-19 Vaccination of Marshallese and Hispanic Adults.” BMC Public Health. 2023; 23:631. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15468-3
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @marissaspear71
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Disability, Medicine, Public History, Rebellion & Revolution, Women
