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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


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.

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Transformative Intersectional Collective (TRIC) Pedagogy Workshop


In this opening presentation for the TRIC Pedagogy Workshop, Dr. Nirmala Erevelles prompts attendees to think about how to teach and engage disability in our courses and classrooms.

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Disability, Eco(in)justice, and Transnational Solidarity


Nirmala Erevelles draws on criticism to explain how the story of environmental (in)justice is tied to racialized, classed, casteist and ableist histories and discusses the implications for transformative praxis.

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Student-2-Know: Sydney Kincart


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.

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U awarded prestigious Mellon Foundation Grant


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

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2021 Transform Awards & Recognitions


Year after year, our team continues to impress -- gathering awards and recognitions throughout the university and at national organizations. Congratulations to these recipients!

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Celebrating 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.

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Irving K. Zola Emerging Scholar Award


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.

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Everyday Survival and Collective Accountability


Margaret Price draws upon data from a study with disabled faculty to highlight themes demonstrate that all participants in higher education will benefit from a cultural shift toward shared accountability and interdependent forms of care.

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Transformative Perspectives

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