The WUNDER at the University of Wisconsin
Disability Studies (DS) is a new field. Both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, DS embraces the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences. As a worldwide area of research and teaching, DS scholars concentrate on the culture, experiences, history and contributions of people with disabilities across time and geography. Recognizing that disabilities are materially created by the cultures surrounding them, those in DS explore literature and economics, history and science, policy and practice to better understand how disabilities are experienced in our world. At the UW, faculty staff and students representing almost every college and more than thirty-five departments, institutes, programs and centers are working together to expand the range and organization of DS at the UW. These efforts are interdigitated with those of The WUNDER to ensure a global perspective as well as a local one.
Participants at the University of Wisconsin
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