In Conversation With Dr. Cathleen Kudlick of SF State University Longmore Institute

Dr. Kudlick is the former director of the Longmore Institute, a leading disability studies center within the CSU system that serves as a model for a good deal of the disability-affirming work done here at CSUSB. She is fascinated by the places where bodies, disability, medicine and gender come together. Her current research focuses on smallpox in 18th and 19th century France to understand how disability became part of ordinary rather than extraordinary experiences. She is the author of “The Social History of Medicine and Disability History” Oxford Handbook of Disability History ed (with Michael Rembis and Kim Nielsen), Oxford University Press (2018)