Sly Saint
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Building a community of teaching, research, & activism about disability
Emily Lim Rogers
https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/In the spring of 2017, the NYU Senate’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Task Force approved a proposal for a cross-school Center for Disability Studies (CDS). The Center builds on ten years of activity of the NYU Council for the Study of Disability, funded by the Provost’s office since 2007. Faye Ginsburg (Anthropology/Faculty of Arts & Sciences) and Mara Mills (Media, Culture, and Communication/Steinhardt), who formerly directed the Council, are the current co-directors of the Center.
The Center promotes disability scholarship, artistry, and activism through: public events, a monthly seminar, an undergraduate Disability Studies Minor and Disability Student Union, and co-direction of the Provostial Working Group addressing issues on campus of Disability, Infrastructure and Accessibility.
Emily Lim Rogers
I am a PhD candidate in the Program in American Studies at the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University. I’m also the administrator at the NYU Center for Disability Studies.
https://www.emilylimrogers.com/I’m currently working on my dissertation, “Clinical Proximities: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Remaking of Disease in the US,” an archival and ethnographic examination of the politics of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in the United States. I look at social and historical formations of scientific uncertainty surrounding fatigue over the course of the 20th century, and ask how people with ME/CFS inhabit this space of uncertainty through the collective work of patient activism and in bodies that are exhausted. ME/CFS’s incomplete incorporation into the clinic allows a real-time window into a pivotal era of American biomedicine, made all the more urgent in the aftermath of COVID-19.