Aparna Nair

From 2023 onwards, I will be Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto-Scarborough, at the Department for Health and Society/Center for Global Disability Studies. From 2015 to the end of 2022, I worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma-Norman, in the History of Science department. My forthcoming book “Fungible Bodies” (2022) with the University of Illinois Press’ Disability Histories examines the relationship between disability and colonialism in British India. I also work on the histories of technologies for disabled people (vision aids, hearing aids, prosthetics, etc); the histories of vaccination and quarantine in India; the material histories of vaccination (specifically the history of the vaccination certificate); and also work on the changing representations of disability and difference in popular culture. I also build exhibits as part of my public history/humanities work.