![]() Professor Nielsen is the recipient of two Fulbright appointments, the A. ![]() She speaks frequently and around the globe on issues of disability and history. Nielsen’s most recent book, Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott, analyzes a mid-19 th century physician institutionalized for two decades at a Wisconsin insane asylum. From 2015-2018, Nielsen co-edited the journal Disability Studies Quarterly. As a Keller expert, Professor Nielsen has appeared on Radio Lab: The Helen Keller Exorcism (2022), Becoming Helen Keller (PBS, 2021), and Icons (BBS, 2019). She is author of The Radical Lives of Helen Keller, Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller and edited Helen Keller: Selected Writings. Furthermore, Professor Nielsen has expertise regarding Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan Macy, and biography. In addition, she served as founding president of the Disability History Association and co-edits the Disability Histories book series at the University of Illinois Press. She is author of the widely used A Disability History of the United States and co-editor of the twice award-winning Oxford Handbook of Disability History. ![]() ![]() Professor Nielsen is a widely recognized scholar of disability history. Her scholarship explores gender, disability, law, and citizenship. Nielsen is Distinguished Professor of Disability Studies and History at the University of Toledo (Ohio). ![]()
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