Texas Disability History Collection

Sarah Rose directs the University of Texas at Arlington’s Disability Studies Minor and is an Associate Professor in the Department of History.  She helped to establish UTA Libraries’ Texas Disability History Collection, is a founding member of the Disability History/Archives Consortium, and has worked with the Disability History Museum since 2008. Her book, No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s, is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press in spring 2017.  She has published essays on “Work” (Keywords for Disability Studies, 2015), “Bionic Ballplayers: Risk, Profit, and the Body as Commodity, 1964-2007” (LABOR: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas, 2014, co-authored with Joshua A. T. Salzmann), and disabled World War II veterans’ fight for access to college (Journal of Policy History, 2012), among other pieces.