Dr. Sarah Rose
Dr. Sarah Rose is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she founded and directs the Minor in Disability Studies and is faculty advisor for the Texas Disability History Collection. Her book, No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s, came out in 2017. Dr. Rose and a UTA colleague are working on an oral history memoir of disability rights activists Bob Kafka and Stephanie Thomas, and she is also doing a book on why insurance companies and Medicare don’t pay for hearing aids. With Jaipreet Virdi and Mara Mills, she recently co-edited an Osiris volume on disability and history of science.