Disability Studies Faculty

José Alaniz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Department of Comparative Literature (adjunct)
jos23@u.washington.edu
206-543-7580  

My interest in disability springs from my study of death and dying and, more generally, the body in Western culture. My current research
centers on the discourses of the ill, dying and/or disabled body in the context of contemporary Russian and East European culture, especially visual culture.  

•  Russian 420/Comparative Literature 496: Illness, Death, and Disability in Modern Europe
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•  Russian 420/Comparative Literature 496: The Politics of Death: Eastern Europe, The Americas
•  Russian 420/Comparative Literature 496: Disability in Russian Culture
•  Russian 420: Death in Russian Culture

Sherrie Brown, J.D., Ed. D
Research Associate Professor in the College of Education
Adjunct Faculty in the School of Law
206-685-4010  

My interest in disability studies focuses on legal advocacy as a way to ensure that the human and civil rights of
individuals with disabilities are recognized by society and realized by affected individuals. American society,
including the legal system, has much to learn from the international law approach to rights and I try to integrate
that perspective in the disability studies courses that I teach.  

•  LSJ/CHID 332 Introduction to Disability Studies (co-instructor)
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•  LSJ/CHID 434 Human and Civil Rights of Disabled Individuals: National and International Perspectives  Download current course syllabus: MS Word or HTML


Robin DiAngelo, PhD
Adjunct Faculty
UW College of Education
UW School of Social Work

She teaches courses in Multicultural Teaching, Intergroup Dialogue Facilitation, and Cultural Diversity & Social Justice. Her research is in Whiteness Studies.

•  FAME 545 Disability/Diversity: Learning in Action (co-instructor)
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Jeanette Franks, PhD
Affiliate Associate Professor
UW School of Social Work
*Please* non-UW email: jfranks@bainbridge.net
if your message is not official University business;
otherwise use: jfranks@u.washington.edu

I have a life-long interest in disability and social justice issues.  As a gerontologist, I teach continuing
education in the UW School of Social Work; Family Medicine 545 Winter quarter, an experiential
learning course focused on aging well; and co-teach geriatrics at Bastyr University.  The other hat I
wear is as an activist for environmental issues.

•  FAME 545 Disability/Diversity: Learning in Action (co-instructor)
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Sara Goering, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Core Faculty in the Program on Values in Society
Adjunct Faculty in Medical History and Ethics
sgoering@u.washington.edu  

My work focuses on the intersection between philosophy, disability, and bioethics, with particular attention to prenatal testing and genetic justice.  

•  Phil 452 Medical Ethics
•  Phil 345 Moral Issues in Life and Death
•  Phil 409 Philosophy and Disability (in preparation)
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•  Phil 450 Seminar in Ethics: Disability and Dependence in Moral and Political Thought
•  Phil 540 Seminar in Ethics: Justice, Genetics and the Medically Underserved

     

Kurt L. Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
206-543-3677
kjohnson@u.washington.edu
http://depts.washington.edu/rehab/contacts/johnson.html  

I have a long standing passion for civil rights and disability. My teaching and research is focused on equality of opportunity and
full participation for people with disabilities.  

•  LSJ 433 Disability Law and Policy (with Pat Brown )    
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Jürg Koch
Lecturer Dance Program
206-616-7561
kochj@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/kochj/  

As artist and educator I have specialized interest in Integrated dance and the diversity of human expression.
Integrated dance strives to work on finding ways of teaching and creating dance that is suitable for disabled
and non-disabled participants. The emphasis is on training dance skills and setting creative tasks that access
and challenge each individual dancer's abilities and expressive potential. (Please note that course numbers will change soon.)  

•  Dance 235/535 Alternative Movement Studies, Integrated Dance Training and Composition (cross listed for the Disability Studies Minor)
•  Dance 336/536 Integrated Dance Theory and Methodology  
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Dennis Lang, B.S.N., M.P.H.
Rehabilitation Medicine Auxiliary Faculty
206-522-3104
dlang@u.washington.edu  

I am a member of the Diversity Council's Advisory Committee on Disability Issues, the Standing Committee on
Accessibility and of the Advisory Board of the Center for Curriculum Transformation. I co-teach Law, Society and Justice 332
on a regular basis.    

•  LSJ/CHID 332 Introduction to Disability Studies (co-instructor)
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Janelle S. Taylor, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Adjunct in Women's Studies
Co-Director of the Critical Medical Humanities Cross-disciplinary Research Cluster
Denny Hall room M39
jstaylor@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/jstaylor/

I am a medical anthropologist and engage issues of disability in my research on the topics of prenatal diagnostic testing, and
end-of-life decisionmaking, as well as in nearly all of my teaching.

•  ANTH 374 Narrative, Literature, and Medical Anthropology
•  ANTH 474 Social Difference and Medical Knowledge
•  ANTH 475/HSERV 475 Perspectives in Medical Anthropology
•  A new course on "Culture, Power and Disability" is in preparation
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Joanne Woiak, PhD
Lecturer in History and in Bothell Interdisciplinary Arts
and Sciences.
jwoiak@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/jwoiak/  

I am a historian of science whose research and teaching interests are the history of eugenics and ethical and social issues
in modern genetics and reproductive technologies.  

•  LSJ/CHID 332 (co-teach)
•  History 498 American Eugenics Movement
•  BIS 393 Biology and Society.
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*New Course*
HIST 490 Topics in History: Biology, Society, and Human Diversity
Winter 2007, Evening Degree course