Research Guides: Disability Studies: Online Resources

Encyclopedias & Histories

Encyclopedia of Disability by Gary L. Albrecht (Editor)
Provides a multidisciplinary, cross-cultural, and historically grounded resource tool that guides the reader across fields, theories, debates, and practices.
The Oxford Handbook of Disability History by Michael Rembis (Editor); Catherine J. Kudlick (Editor); Kim Nielsen (Editor)
An international perspective of critical disability history.
The Disability Rights Movement by Doris Fleischer; Frieda Zames
A probing analysis of such topics as deinstitutionalization, housing, health care, assisted suicide, employment, education, new technologies, disabled veterans, and disability culture. Based on interviews with over one hundred activists.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 as a common standard of fundamental human rights to be universally protected

Disability Studies Quarterly
Use the search bar to look for specific topics in disability studies. Volume 1-20, no. 3 of journal is archived on the Knowledge Bank site; Volume 20, no. 4 through the present can be found under Archives.
Review of Disability Studies
Started in 2004, this is a peer-review academic journal. Use the search bar to look for topics related to disability studies
Disability History Museum
Covers content about how changing cultural values, notions of identity, and laws and policies have shaped and influenced the experience of people with disabilities, their families and their communities over time.
Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability
Oral history interviews conducted in Spring 2014 published with free and unrestricted public access with permission obtained from each interviewee.
The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
A peer-reviewed interdisciplinary scholarly journal that integrates and coordinates basic and applied research relating to deaf individuals, including cultural, growth and developmental, linguistic, and educational topics.

American Studies Association: Critical Disability Studies Caucus
Highlights the work of scholars engaged in the study of disability, madness, neurodivergence, chronic illness, and debilitation. The Caucus also offers a graduate student paper award.
Society for the Study of Social Problems: Disability Division
Devoted to the critical study of disability in society, including the structural and sociocultural mechanisms through which disability is (re)produced and (re)constructed as an axis of oppression and exclusion.
Disability History Association
Promotes the study of the history of disabilities; perspectives on disability; representations/constructions of disability; policy and practice; theory; and social and civil rights movements. Offers its members access to a newsletter, conference information, sample syllabi, and a new Zotero library.
American Sociological Association: Section on Disability and Society
Aims to strengthen the theoretical and methodological aspects of Disability and Society Studies.
Organization of American Historians: Committee on Disability & Disability History
Engages with all professional issues relevant to historians with disabilities and also promotes the study, teaching, and preservation of disability histories.
Modern Language Association: Disability Studies Forum
Discussions by MLA professionals interested in and pursuing disability studies topics.