Dorothea Dix\, an asylum and prison reform er\, and later Civil War Superintendent of Union Army Nurses\, profoundly shaped U.S. psychiatric healthcare. Her work prompted officials to fund a vast expansion of medicalized\, racially-differentiated insane asylums bet ween 1830 and 1875. Join us for this exploration of Dix&rsquo\;s activism and its consequences.
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Kim E. Nielsen\, \;Professor of Disabilit y Studies\, History\, and Women&rsquo\;s &\; Gender Studies | The Unive rsity of Toledo
\nSince earning her Ph.D. in History from the Univer sity of Iowa in 1996\, Nielsen&rsquo\;s scholarship has centered on histor ical debates about who is fit to participate in civic life\; using gender\ , disability\, and changing notions of competency as her tools of analysis . \;A Disability History of the United States \;(Beacon\, Oct 2012 )\, Nielsen&rsquo\;s newest book\, is the first analysis of disability thr oughout United States history and covers the period prior to European arri val through the present. Other books include \;Beyond the Miracle Work er: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friend ship with Helen Keller \;(Beacon\, 2009)\; \;Helen Keller: Selecte d Writings \;(NYUP\, 2005)\; \;The Radical Lives of Helen Keller&n bsp\;(NYUP\, 2004)\; and \;Un-American Womanhood: Anti-Radicalism\, An ti-Feminism\, and the First Red Scare \;(OSUP\, 2001). In 2010 the Org anization of American Historians (OAH) honored Nielsen by appointing her a Distinguished Lecturer. Other awards include the 2007 A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize of the Southern Association of Women Historians for the best articl e in the field of southern women&rsquo\;s history for her article &ldquo\; The Southern Ties of Helen Keller\,&rdquo\; published in the \;Journal of Southern History\, a Founders Award for Excellence in Teaching\, an NE H Summer Fellowship\, a 2005 OAH lectureship in Japan\, and a Fulbright Sc holars Award to the University of Iceland. Nielsen currently chairs the OA H Committee on Disability and Disability History\, and was founding presid ent of the Disability History Association. She comes to the University of Toledo after fourteen years at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
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