The Disability History Association (DHA) is an international non-profit organization that promotes the study of disabilities. DHA Membership is open to scholars, institutions and organizations and is an affiliated member of the American Historical Association (AHA) and the Organization of American Historians (OAH).
History of the Disability History Association The Disability History Association originated with informal conversations by a group of pioneering disability scholars at the Summer Institute on Disability Studies in the Humanities at San Francisco State University in 2000. The following year, they created H-Disability, a discussion group in the prominent online scholarly platform H-Net. In 2004, the organization held its first board meeting, and then the community was incorporated into the Disability History Association in 2007. In 2008, the Disability History Association, British Disability History Group, and the San Francisco State University cosponsored an international academic conference for disability history. The DHA sponsors the Outstanding Publication Award, awarded annually to a book or an article which explores significant new ground in the field of disability history. From 2012 to 2017, the DHA alternated offering the Outstanding Book Chapter or Article Award and the Outstanding Book Award, but in 2018 began offering both awards each year.
Outstanding Publication Award Winners
Current Board of Directors, 2019-2020 Sara Scalenghe - Chair Lindsey Patterson - Vice President Aparna Nair - VP for Communications Kathleen Brian - Treasurer Caroline Lieffers - Graduate Student Representative Nicole Belolan - Member Susan Burch - Member Iain Hutchison - Member Sandy Sufian - Member Jaipreet Virdi -Member
Past Leadership Kim E. Nielsen, past president.
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