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Society for Disability Studies
The Society for Disability Studies is an international academic network of disability studies practitioners.[1] It often abbreviates its name to SDS, though that abbreviation continues to be used by academics and political scientists to describe the Students for a Democratic Society organization in the United States. The society's overall goal is to promote disability studies as a serious academic discipline on par with philosophy, the social sciences, and similar fields.[2] Definition of disability studiesIn 1993 the society adopted an official definition of "Disability Studies":[3]
Founding and historyThe organization was founded in 1982 first as the Section for the Study of Chronic Illness, Impairment, and Disability (SSCIID), and renamed Society for Disability Studies in 1986.[4] Its founders are Daryl Evans, Nora Groce, Steve Hey, Gary Kiger, John Seidel, Jessica Scheer and Irving Kenneth Zola (1935–1994).[4] The Society for Disability Studies is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. The Society maintains affiliation status with the Western Social Science Association[5] (WSSA) through its Chronic Disease and Disability section. Currently, the SDS has hundreds of members both nationally and internationally who continue to make disability studies a part of academic conversations.[4] Activities and publicationsThe Society for Disability Studies holds an annual conference[6] in June and publishes a quarterly peer-reviewed journal, the Disability Studies Quarterly.[7][8] The journal is published exclusively online.[9] SDS has created a good model to follow when approaching publishers about their accessibility.[10] In 2015, Adam Newman organized the "Digital Access Facilitation Team" (DAFT)[11] to make the 2015 annual conference of the Society for Disability Studies more accessible for a wider range of attendees. DAFT is coordinated by the Society's Student Caucus, whose members are a group of 25–30 students of SDS. Working in teams of two, members of DAFT were live-tweeting every session, contingent upon the consent of presenters. Live-tweeting all sessions and following standards for that emerging media, allowed a new way of producing accessibility for the disability community.[12] In the Society for Disability Studies, there are a number of caucuses which "designate groups that are under-represented within society or SDS as an organization." DAFT is composed entirely of students (undergraduate, graduate, professional) who work on behalf of the interest and needs of students.[13] MembershipThere are several options for membership opportunities, even if someone is unable to pay the membership fees they will not be turned away; "No one is denied membership in SDS due to an inability to pay an established membership fee."[14] AwardsTwo awards have been established by the society "to honor individuals who have shown dedication to Disability studies": the Senior Scholar Award and the Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies.[15] The Senior Scholar Award is awarded to individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of disability studies. Past award winners: Devva Kasnitz (2014), Richard Scotch (2013), Carol Gill (2012), Tobin Siebers (2011), Rosemarie Garland Thomson (2010), Elizabeth Depoy and Stephen Gilson (2009), and Steven J. Taylor (2008).[16] On the contrary, the Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies is awarded to an up-and-coming individual who also has made significant contributions to the field of disability studies. Board of directors2017–2018:[needs update]
List of SDS PresidentsBelow is a list of the current and past presidents of the SDS.[18]
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