University of Michigan Initiative on Disability Studies (UMInDS)
UMInDS seeks to expand diversity at the University of Michigan by integrating the study of disability into research, scholarship, and teaching. The central purpose of UMInDS is to establish a degree-granting program that advances knowledge about, by, and for people with disabilities and to promote their full and equal participation in society. It is generously funded by the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the Office of the Provost,theOffice of the Vice President for Research, and the Rackham School of Graduate Studies.
Program Chair:
Tobin Siebers, Professor of English, University of Michigan
Co-Associate Chairs:
Anna Kirkland, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies, University
of Michigan
Jonathan Metzl, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Women’s Studies, Director of
Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine, University of Michigan