Sarah Handley-Cousins
PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Associate Director
Fields
19th century United States History; Civil War and Reconstruction; Social and Cultural History; Gender and Sexuality; History of Medicine, Disability and Science; History of Discipline
Contact Information
Education
- PhD, University at Buffalo, 2016
- MSEd, Niagara University, 2010
- MA, University at Buffalo, 2009
- BA, Wells College, 2007
Courses Regularly Taught
HIS 144 Health, Medicine and Society
HIS 209 Civil War and Reconstruction
HIS 301 Historical Writing
Selected Publications
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
“‘Wrestling at the Gates of Death:’ Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Nonvisible Disability in the Post Civil War North,” The Journal of the Civil War Era
"Best Men, Broken Men: Gender, Disability and American Veterans," in Kara Dixon Vuic, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2017)
"Disability in Civil War Medical Photography," in Brian Jordan, ed., The Unfinished Work: New Perspectives on Civil War Veteranhood (forthcoming, Louisiana State University Press)
Selected Digital Publications
"Work Requirements for Medicaid hurt people with 'invisible' disabilities," Made by History, The Washington Post
“Ghosts Are Scary, Disabled People Are Not: The Troubling Rise of the Haunted Asylum,” Nursing Clio
“Come to the Dark Side: Disability as ‘Dark’ Civil War History,” Nursing Clio
“PTSD and the Civil War,” Disunion, The New York Times
“The Wounded Lion of Union,” Disunion, The New York Times
Awards and Fellowships
- Honorable Mention, Best Article/Book Chapter Prize, Disability History Association, 2017
- AASLH Good History Award for DIG: A History Podcast, 2017
- New York Humanities Public Humanities Fellow, 2015-2016