Essaka Joshua is engaged in a book-length study of disability in British literature of the Romantic period.
Encarnación Juárez-Almendros has published widely on disability issues and is currently working on book entitled Women and Disability in Early Modern Spain.
John Duffy is currently working on a history of the contending discourses of autism, the tropes, metaphors, and other rhetorical resources that offered autistic persons, in Kenneth Burkeís phrase, ìsheer identities of the symbolic,î or ways of understanding themselves and their places in the world.
Thomas Merluzzi studies coping processes in people with cancer. His work in this area includes the study of measures of self-efficacy for coping with cancer; religious/spiritual coping; and the impact of brief counseling on adjustment to cancer; midlife transitions in health; and the importance of cultural competency in health professionals.
Candida Moss studies the presentation of disability and disease in the New Testament. She is currently working on the construction of health and disease in the Gospel of Mark and a separate study of heavenly eugenics in biblical accounts and modern theology.
Michael Rembis is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of History and the Department of American Studies. He specializes in the history of disability and in the history of eugenics.
Michael Jenuwine
Tom Whitman