{"id":45807,"date":"2017-08-14T03:05:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=45807"},"modified":"2017-08-07T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T19:02:37","slug":"disability-studies-assistant-professor-awarded-fellowship-for-research-on-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/08_14_2017\/disability-studies-assistant-professor-awarded-fellowship-for-research-on-incarceration","title":{"rendered":"Disability studies assistant professor awarded fellowship for research on incarceration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe, assistant professor of disability studies, wants to bridge the gap between studying disability and incarceration.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was odd to me that there weren\u2019t more connections between disability studies and prison studies when I first began doing this work. Now, after doing this for more than a decade, there are more people, organizations and scholarship on this topic,\u201d she said. \u201cFirst, there is the high proportion of disabled \u2014 psychiatric, cognitive, learning or other disabilities \u2014 in prison, a phenomenon not often discussed. Then there are so many sites of confinement for people with disabilities, even outside of prison settings \u2014 nursing homes, psych hospitals, institutions. We need to understand all these as sites of incarceration.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ben-Moshe<\/p><\/div>Ben-Moshe recently was recognized for her outstanding work with one of the American Association of University Women\u2019s American Fellowships for the 2017-18 academic year. These fellowships support women scholars who are completing dissertations, planning research leave, or preparing research for publication. <\/p>\n

Her forthcoming book, \u201cPolitics of (En)Closure,\u201d focuses on movements to abolish prisons and deinstitutionalization of mental and intellectual health institutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am incredibly honored to be receiving such a prestigious and competitive fellowship, and I see it as a recognition for my work on social movements that resist incarceration. But I also see it as a recognition of the field of disability studies and specifically of UT\u2019s role as a leader in the field of disability studies, as we have currently the only on campus bachelor of arts degree in disability studies in the U.S.,\u201d Ben-Moshe said.<\/p>\n

Studies have shown that more than half of inmates in local and state prisons received clinical diagnosis or treatment by a mental health professional. Ben-Moshe believes the solution to this troubling statistic lies in having a better understanding of what is called mental illness.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people who do prison advocacy or critical prison studies work discuss disability, it is not as an identity and a culture, but as a deficit. Those within disability advocacy and work really need to learn more about prison and prison abolition,\u201d she explained. \u201cThe intersectional nature of oppression and its resistance here are vital. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, in my new book, I discuss what prison reformers and abolitionists can learn from deinstitutionalization, which was another mass movement to close carceral settings such as psychiatric hospitals, institutions for people with intellectual disabilities. People didn\u2019t think it will happen; it was called utopia, unrealistic. But it did happen, and we can learn from it about how to rely less on settings that segregate people, like institutions and prisons, and more about how to deal with harm and difference in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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