Disability Studies – SCHOOL FOR CULTURAL & SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Dr. Angela Marie Smith Receives Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities

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Dr. Angela Marie Smith Receives 2024 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities The University of Michigan Press has awarded the 2024 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities to Affecting Disability on American Screens, a groundbreaking manuscript by Associate Professor Angela Marie Smith. This prestigious annual prize recognizes an outstanding […]

June 4, 2025

Undergraduate Research | Fall 2024 – Spring 2025

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Fall 2024 Research Symposium Presenter: Mar Smith Mentor: Kim Hackford-Peer Presentation: Forging Representation in the Wake of Censorship: A “Trans” Analysis of Spider-Man’s Canon Summary: The argument that Spider-Man’s story can be read as a transgender narrative is built on a strong foundation of allegory, body horror, comic history, and censorship. In a time where […]

April 24, 2025

Dean of School for Cultural and Social Transformation is named

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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.

May 9, 2023

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.

December 16, 2022

Student-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.

March 25, 2022

U awarded prestigious Mellon Foundation Grant

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Funding will create an intersectional studies collective in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation.

January 20, 2022

2021 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!

July 9, 2021

Celebrating 5 years of Transform

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Asked to personally reflect on this happiness, the inaugural dean of Transform, professor Kathryn Bond Stockton, harks to her early days at the U.

July 9, 2021

Irving 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.

April 20, 2021

Student voices leading to structural change

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Learn how an open dialogue helped create the U’s School for Cultural and Social Transformation.

March 11, 2021