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18 of the Last 9: Miami University Notable Alumni Award
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Research Presentation: "In the Time of Dementia": Temporality, Care, and Confinement in Dementia Units of Nursing Homes
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P.E.O. Scholar Award
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons, a Ph.D. Candidate in Disability Studies at University of Illinois at Chicago, is one of 100 doctoral students in the U. S. and Canada selected to receive a $15,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She was sponsored by Chapter EQ of Oxford, Ohio, with the support of Chapter President Lynn Cronk and Chair of the P.E.O. Scholar Award Elisabeth Haley. Download or view the full press release below!
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CCCC Disability in College Composition Travel Award
December 13, 2016
Hailee Yoshizaki Gibbons displays her award certificate at CCCC 2017.
Hailee Yoshizaki Gibbons, University of Illinois at Chicago, has won a 2017 CCCC Disability in College Composition Travel Award. The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Yoshizaki Gibbons is one of 6 recipients of this award.
CCCC sponsors these awards designed to support scholarship dedicated to improving knowledge about the intersections of disability with composition and rhetoric, the value of disability as a source of diversity, inclusive practices and the promotion of access, and the value of disability as a critical lens. The purpose of the Award, consisting of $750 and a one-year complimentary membership in NCTE/CCCC, is to provide funding for the winners to travel to the CCCC Annual Convention and share their work. The awards will go to the eligible scholars whose convention program proposals are determined to have the greatest potential to further the goals laid out in the CCCC Policy on Disability.
The Selection Committee noted that Yoshizaki Gibbons’ work explores dementia, which is not just underexplored within disability rhetoric and DS, but also has radical potential, given its implications for reconsideration of issues such as wordlessness, cognition, personality, and selfhood. Yoshizaki Gibbons focuses on interesting and very helpful theoretical constructions of memory and dementia. Her presentation extends into clear new research territory in line with the CCCC Statement on Disability’s values, both in its critical engagement and in promoting pedagogical access for people with dementia as an underserved disability population. The nomination letter for Yoshizaki Gibbons makes a strong case for the positive diversity contribution of this presentation—both because of Yoshizaki Gibbons’ identity as a disabled person of color and through the presentation’s interdisciplinary aims.
Yoshizaki Gibbons was announced as a recipient of the CCCC Disability in College Composition Travel Award on Friday, March 17, during the 2017 CCCC Annual Convention in Portland, Oregon.
CCCC sponsors these awards designed to support scholarship dedicated to improving knowledge about the intersections of disability with composition and rhetoric, the value of disability as a source of diversity, inclusive practices and the promotion of access, and the value of disability as a critical lens. The purpose of the Award, consisting of $750 and a one-year complimentary membership in NCTE/CCCC, is to provide funding for the winners to travel to the CCCC Annual Convention and share their work. The awards will go to the eligible scholars whose convention program proposals are determined to have the greatest potential to further the goals laid out in the CCCC Policy on Disability.
The Selection Committee noted that Yoshizaki Gibbons’ work explores dementia, which is not just underexplored within disability rhetoric and DS, but also has radical potential, given its implications for reconsideration of issues such as wordlessness, cognition, personality, and selfhood. Yoshizaki Gibbons focuses on interesting and very helpful theoretical constructions of memory and dementia. Her presentation extends into clear new research territory in line with the CCCC Statement on Disability’s values, both in its critical engagement and in promoting pedagogical access for people with dementia as an underserved disability population. The nomination letter for Yoshizaki Gibbons makes a strong case for the positive diversity contribution of this presentation—both because of Yoshizaki Gibbons’ identity as a disabled person of color and through the presentation’s interdisciplinary aims.
Yoshizaki Gibbons was announced as a recipient of the CCCC Disability in College Composition Travel Award on Friday, March 17, during the 2017 CCCC Annual Convention in Portland, Oregon.
New Article Published in Review of Disability Studies
Thursday, September 1, 2016
The Review of Disability Studies released their special issue on Aging and Disability, which included my article, "Compulsory Youthfulness: Intersections of Ableism and Ageism in 'Successful Aging' Discourses."
Click here to access the artwork and articles of the special issue.
Click here to access a copy of my article.
Click here to access the artwork and articles of the special issue.
Click here to access a copy of my article.
Now Available: Kate Welling Disability Studies Lecture Series Notes and Slides
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Presenting at the Kate Welling Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series in Disability Studies at Miami University of Ohio
I had a fantastic experience discussing how we might apply disability studies to dementia at the Kate Welling Disability Awareness Lecture Series at Miami University. I was incredibly honored to be selected as one of their emerging scholars in the lecture series.
To access my lecture notes, slides, and pictures, please visit:
http://www.haileegibbons.com/kate-welling-disability-studies-lecture.html
To access my lecture notes, slides, and pictures, please visit:
http://www.haileegibbons.com/kate-welling-disability-studies-lecture.html
Upcoming Lecture at Miami University
Monday, November 9, 2015
As part of the Kate Welling Disability Awareness Lecture Series, I will be presenting Letting Go of "The Long Goodbye": Applying Disability Studies to Dementia at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio on Monday, November 9, 2015 at 4 PM in McGuffey 322. This lecture is free and open to the public.
In this lecture, I will discuss how applying disability studies theories to dementia may help us challenge dominant cultural narratives of dementia and rehumanize people with dementia.
In this lecture, I will discuss how applying disability studies theories to dementia may help us challenge dominant cultural narratives of dementia and rehumanize people with dementia.
Anne Hopkins Scholarship
Friday, October 9, 2015
2015 Anne Hopkins Scholarship Recipients - Alison Kopit (Left) and Hailee Gibbons (Right)
I was very honored to accept the 2015 Anne Hopkins Scholarship on Friday, October 9, 2015, along with my friend and colleague Alison Kopit.
Anne (Annie) was an amazing activist, scholar, and entrepreneur who started the 3E Love company and worked tirelessly for disability rights before she passed away. You may read more about Annie by visiting: http://www.3elove.com/pages/who-is-annie
I am so grateful I can carry on Annie's legacy through my work. This scholarship will support my attendance at the upcoming conference, Breaking Silences, Demanding Crip Justice: Sex, Sexuality, and Disability. At this conference, I will be presenting "Bringing a Disability Studies Perspective to Conversations on Dementia and Sex," as well as "Deviant Sexuality: The Hypersexualization of Women with Bipolar Disorder." The second presentation is in collaboration with Meghann O'Leary.
Anne (Annie) was an amazing activist, scholar, and entrepreneur who started the 3E Love company and worked tirelessly for disability rights before she passed away. You may read more about Annie by visiting: http://www.3elove.com/pages/who-is-annie
I am so grateful I can carry on Annie's legacy through my work. This scholarship will support my attendance at the upcoming conference, Breaking Silences, Demanding Crip Justice: Sex, Sexuality, and Disability. At this conference, I will be presenting "Bringing a Disability Studies Perspective to Conversations on Dementia and Sex," as well as "Deviant Sexuality: The Hypersexualization of Women with Bipolar Disorder." The second presentation is in collaboration with Meghann O'Leary.
