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A sampling my published research:

Dorn, M. L., and Metzel, D. S., ‘Introduction - Disability Geography: Commonalities in a World of Differences,’ Disability Studies Quarterly 21(4), 2001.

Craddock, S. and Dorn, M. L., ‘Guest Editorial: Nationbuilding: Gender, race and medical discourse,’ Journal of Historical Geography 27(3): pp. 313-318, 2001. (doi:10.1006/jhge.2001.0324)

Dorn, M. L., '(In)temperate zones: Daniel Drake's medico-moral geographies of urban life in the trans-Appalachian American West,' Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 55(3): 256-291, 2000.

Dorn, M. L., 'Beyond nomadism: The travel narratives of a "cripple",' in Heidi J. Nast and Steve Pile, eds. Places Through the Body , Routledge: London & New York, pp. 183-206, 1998.

R. Shields, Dorn, M. L., Schumann, D., Seifen, D., 'Interview of Hubert Dreyfus, Becoming skilled in doing what's appropriate: the nonreflective rationality of ethical expertise,' disClosure 5:3-26, 1996.

Dorn, M. L., Urch, K., Abraham, J., 'Interview of Gloria Anzaldúa, Working the borderlands, becoming mestiza,' disClosure 4:75-96, 1995.

Dorn, M. L., and Laws, G. L., 'Social theory, body politics and medical geography: Extending Kearns' invitation,' Professional Geographer 46(1): 106-110, 1994.

Geography & Disability Projects

Disability Studies

Disability & Geography

Follow these links for information on the Disability and Geography International Network (DAGIN)
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Disability Specialty Group (DSG), Association of American Geographers

GEOGABLE Listserv

International listserv for discussion and information on geographical issues that concern persons with disabilities or chronic illnesses.

AAG

Association of American Geographers

Acadiana & Courir du Mardi Gras Excursion
in conjuction with the AAG Annual Meeting in New Orleans, March, 2003

Delaware Valley Geographical Association

The DVGA is a local chapter of the Association of American Geographers dedicated to promoting geography in the Delaware Valley region. The organization sponsors regular field trips to sites of geographic interest in the area, and spring and fall dinner meetings featuring talks by prominent geographers.

History of Geography

AAG History of Geography Specialty Group

Geography in America Timeline

An on-going project of the History of Geography Specialty Group, to be debuted at the Association of American Geographers' 2004 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia! The Association will also be celebrating their centennial at this meeting.

Society for Disability Studies (SDS)

The homepage of the Society for Disability Studies.

Video - Kennedy Center Performance of Lynn Manning

Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ)

The longest-published journal in Disability Studies.

Where do we find Disability Studies?

List of programs that have come to my attention.

NOTE: the programs are organized according to institutional location, as best I could determine from their web documentation. These categories may not accurately reflect their curricular focus.

Mass Media & Disability Links

A complete collection on disability-related media outlets. Organized & maintained by Beth Haller at Towson State University, Towson, Maryland

Disability Studies Academic Community (DISC)

The DISC website is an international, interdisciplinary, user-generated, digital forum providing support, collegial networks, and information that sustains a disability studies academic community and promotes disability studies in a humanities focus. DISC is built by the disability studies community through the contributions of registered users.

DisabilityStudies.com

Following this link to the
on-line news magazine that covers the emerging interdisciplinary field of Disability Studies.

Medical Geography

History of Disabilities

Medical Geography

The official web site of the
AAG Medical Geography
Specialty Group (MGSG)

Emerging Infectious Diseases

A peer reviewed journal tracking and analyzing disease trends, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Disability Social History Project

The Disability History Project is a community history project, giving disabled people the opportunity to reclaim their history and determine how they want to define themselves and their struggles.

H-DISABILITY Listserv

Follow this link for information on H-DISABILITY
the international listserv for discussion and information on historical experiences and representations of persons with disabilities or chronic illnesses .

Ohio Valley History

Medical & Environmental History

Daniel Drake on Earthquakes

M. C. Hansen, ' "The awlful visitor": The great New Madrid Earthquakes in Ohio,' Ohio Geology Winter, 1998

Cincinnati Museum Center

Located in Cincinnati's Union Terminal, a renovated art deco train terminal and National Historic Landmark

The museum center welcomes over one million visitors each year and houses the Cincinnati Historical Society
library and historical collections.

Baltimore Ecosystem Study

The Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) aims to understand metropolitan Baltimore as an ecological system.
The program brings together researchers from the biological, physical, and social sciences to collect new data and synthesize existing information on how both the built and wild ecosystems of Baltimore work.

Medicine in Jacksonian America

A web publication of the Conner Prairie open-air living history museum located in Fishers, Indiana.

Conner Prairie is a center for research and education about the lives, times, attitudes, and values of early 19th-century settlers in the Old Northwest Territory.

Image of the Cincinnati Waterfront from the Kentucky Shore

Disability Activism Links Continuously updated list of disability activism sites.	Mike Dorn The Institute on Disabilities Temple University 423 Ritter Annex 1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19122 Tel. (215) 204-1356 (voice/TTY) Fax (215) 204-6336 mdorn@temple.edu