Publications

Faculty Publications

Zoom image: Michael Rembis, Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960 (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2011, 2013) The cover for Michael Rembis’s book, Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960, is cream-colored and centers a black and white photograph of about twenty young girls in white seated at stationary school desks with the book title above and author’s name below in dark font.

Michael Rembis, Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960 (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2011, 2013)

Zoom image: Michael Rembis, Disability Histories, co-edited with Susan Burch (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2014)  The cover for Disability Histories, edited by Susan Burch and Michael Rembis, has bright colors on the bottom half with crisp white above that includes the title in dark capital letters followed by the editors’ names in smaller red font.

Michael Rembis, Disability Histories, co-edited with Susan Burch (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2014) 

Zoom image: Michael Rembis,  Disabling Domesticity (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)  The cover for Disabling Domesticity, edited by Michael Rembis, depicts the title in all caps in yellow and bright blue, superimposed over a faded grey picture of the bottom several steps of a home staircase with wooden banister.

Michael Rembis,  Disabling Domesticity (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) 

Zoom image: Michael Rembis,  The Oxford Handbook of Disability History, co-edited with Catherine Kudlick and Kim Neilsen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)  The cover for The Oxford Handbook of Disability History edited by Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim Nielsen has bright smudged colors over the top two-thirds of the cover with the title below, over a black background.

Michael Rembis,  The Oxford Handbook of Disability History, co-edited with Catherine Kudlick and Kim Neilsen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018) 

Zoom image: Sarah Handley-Cousins, Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019) The cover for Sarah Handley-Cousins’s book, Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North, positions the title and author’s name in white font at the top of the page over a red background that ombres downward into a blue background with a pencil or ink sketch of soldiers in battle.

Sarah Handley-Cousins, Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019)

The cover of Jenifer Barclay’s book, The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America, features the profile of a young Black girl with short dark hair, brown eyes, and bright green marks on her face that look like butterflies or flowers on the bottom left of the page with the book’s title in sage and cream font above and to the right of the image.

Jenifer Barclay, The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2021)