Editors

Public Disability History is a free and participative blog journal. To provide a good quality of the posts the members of the editorial board and the editors-in-chief are responsible for the content which is uploaded/posted by the contributors.

Editors-in-chief

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Sebastian Barsch

Sebastian Barsch is professor for history didactics at University of Cologne.

Contact:
sebastian@public-disabilityhistory.org



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Emmeline Burdett

Emmeline Burdett is an independent researcher, writer and translator who is in the process of publishing a book on Anglo-US debates about euthanasia and the use of the Nazi analogy. 

Contact:
emmeline@public-disabilityhistory.org

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Ninon Dubourg

Ninon Dubourg is currently a postdoctoral researcher funded by an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship and based at the University of Cologne. Her research focuses on old age and physical and mental disabilities in secular and clerical contexts in medieval Europe.

Contact:
ninon@public-disabilityhistory.org

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Luna Lemoine

Luna Lemoine is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the History of Education of KU Leuven. Her research focuses on the history of special education for children with sensory impairments and reparative history of (special) education.

Contact:
luna@public-disabilityhistory.org

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Jonathan Schlunck

Jonathan Schlunck is a PhD candidate at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University. His research focuses on the history of scouts with disabilities and the relationship between conceptualisations of nature, disability, and childhood.

Contact:
jonathan@public-disabilityhistory.org

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Kirstie Stage

Kirstie Stage is a History PhD candidate at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge and the British Library. Her research focuses on the labour and livelihoods of Deaf and disabled people in modern Britain. 

Contact:
kirstie@public-disabilityhistory.org

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Pieter Verstraete

Pieter Verstraete is professor at the Centre for the History of Education of the KU Leuven and curator of the Leuven Disability Filmfestival.

Contact:
pieter@public-disabilityhistory.org


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Jan-Christian Wilkening

Jan-Christian Wilkening is currently working as a history teacher at a German high school. He recieved his PhD at the University of Cologne. His research focuses on inclusion, history education and public history.

Contact:
jan.christian@public-disabilityhistory.org




Editorial board

Gaby Admon-Rick, Bar Ilan University (Israel)
Monika Baar, University of Leiden (Netherlands)
Daniel Blackie, Swansea University (Great Britain)
Susan Burch, Middlebury College (USA)
Mercedez Del Cura Gonzalez, Universidad de Castilla-la Mancha (Spain)
Faye Ginzburg, New York University (USA)
Jan Grue, University of Oslo (Norway)
Stefan Sunandan Honisch, Banting Fellow, Department of Theatre and Film University of British Columbia (Canada)
Yoshiya Makita, College of Policy Science/ Ritsumeikan University (Japan)
Cordula Nolte, University of Bremen (Germany)
Geoffrey Reaume, York University (Canada)
Sonali Shah, University of Glasgow (Great Britain)
Matilda Svensson, Lund University (Sweden)
David Turner, Swansea University (Great Britain)
Anne Waldschmidt, University of Cologne (Germany)