Committed: Native Self-determination, Kinship, Institutionalization, and Remembering

Co-sponsored by
Disability Law Student Association
Harvard Native American Law Students Association

Delivered by

Susan Burch, Director and Professor of American Studies, Middlebury College

Tuesday, February 11, 12pm
Austin Hall, 3^rd Floor
The Morgan Courtroom

Susan Burch is director and professor of American studies and a former director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity at Middlebury College. She is the author of Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to 1942 (2002) and a coauthor, with Hannah Joyner, of Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson (2007). Dr. Burch has coedited multiple anthologies in critical disability studies, including Women and Deafness: Double Visions (2006), Deaf and Disability Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2010), and Disability Histories (2014). She also served as editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of American Disability History (2009). She has earned grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Archives, National Endowment for the Humanities, Mellon Foundation, and Fulbright Foundation. Her current work, entitled "Committed: Native Self-determination, Kinship, Institutionalization, and Remembering," (forthcoming with the University of North Carolina Press) centers on peoples' experiences inside and outside the Canton Asylum, a federal psychiatric institution specifically intended to contain American Indians