Participant Info
- First Name
- Aparna
- Last Name
- Nair
- Country
- State
- OK Oklahoma
- aparna.nair@ou.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Oklahoma-Norman
- Website URL
- https://disabilitystories.com/
- Keywords
- disability history, disability studies, history of medicine, medical anthropology, India, colonial history, Empire
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Im a disability historian and anthropology of chronic illness, who has lived with epilepsy since I was 11 years old. It has impelled my research and makes me perhaps more uniquely invested in my work.
- Recent Publications
Of Ear Trumpets, Audiphones, and the Language of the Fingers (Kar Pallavi Bhasha): Technologies for the Deaf in British India in Making Disability Modern: Design Histories, eds. Bess Williamson and Elizabeth Guffney, Bloomsbury, Forthcoming 2019
‘Like Bananas with Brown Spots’: Epilepsy, Embodiment, Vulnerability and Resilience in South India’, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, (Accepted and Forthcoming), 2018
Vaccinating against ‘Vasoori’: Eradicating Smallpox in the ‘Model’ Princely State of Travancore, 1801-1945, Indian Economic and Social History Review, (Accepted, in Print), 2018
‘They Shall See His Face’: Blindness in British India, 1850-1950’, Medical History, (April), 2017
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- DisabilityStor1
- Country Focus
- India
- Expertise by Geography
- India, United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Medicine, Race, Science, Women
