Participant Info
- First Name
- Sarah
- Last Name
- Handley-Cousins
- Country
- State
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- handley2@buffalo.edu
- Affiliation
- University at Buffalo
- Website URL
- www.sarahhandleycousins.com
- Keywords
- Disability history, Civil War history, veterans, manhood, death, medicine, military
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian of disability and the military during the Civil War era. I have a PhD in History from the University at Buffalo, where I now teach as Clinical Assistant Professor. I am also Associate Director of the Center for Disability Studies at the University at Buffalo. In addition, I am a producer for Dig: A History Podcast and am a writer and editor for Nursing Clio.
- Recent Publications
“‘Wrestling at the Gates of Death:’ Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Nonvisible Disability in the Post Civil War North,” June 2016 The Journal of the Civil War Era
“Best Men, Broken Men: Gender and Disability and American Veterans,” in Kara Vuic, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Gender, War, and the U. S. Military, Taylor & Francis Publishing
- Media Coverage
- I have written op-eds for the Washington Post and New York Times, and have been quoted in a piece on disability in the New York Times.
- @sarahbelle721
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
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- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, Gender, Medicine, Military, Museums
