Dean of School for Cultural and Social Transformation is named
University of Utah Provost Mitzi M. Montoya announced that Ruma Chopra has accepted an offer to serve as dean of the School for Cultural and Social Transformation.
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Making it Accessible
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For the Day of Disability and Neurodiversity, a panel of campus experts provided brief overviews and demonstrations of basic accessibility practices for communications and event planning.
Read MoreStudent-2-Know: Sydney Kincart
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Transform is filled with changemakers you need to know! Meet Sydney Kincart, a disability studies minor, who wants to pursue a career in disability policy and advocacy work.
Read MoreU awarded prestigious Mellon Foundation Grant
Funding will create an intersectional studies collective in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation.
Read More2021 Transform Awards & Recognitions
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Year after year, our team continues to impress — gathering awards and recognitions throughout the university and at national organizations. Congratulations to these recipients!
Read MoreCelebrating 5 years of Transform
Asked to personally reflect on this happiness, the inaugural dean of Transform, professor Kathryn Bond Stockton, harks to her early days at the U.
Read MoreIrving K. Zola Emerging Scholar Award
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Dr. Lezlie Frye has won the 2020 Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies for her paper Cripping the “Crack Baby” Epidemic: A Feminist Genealogy.
Read MoreStudent voices leading to structural change
Learn how an open dialogue helped create the U’s School for Cultural and Social Transformation.
Read MoreScary Is How You Act, Not Look, Disability Advocates Tell Filmmakers
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“The Witches,” a film in which Anne Hathaway’s character has disfigured hands, has resurfaced the debate over depicting evil as disabled.
Read MoreA powerful transformation
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When Disability Studies moved into Transform, there were 21 declared disability studies minors at the U. After just one year in the school, there are 44 declared disability studies minors.
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