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What Sorts Network Team Nicholas Agar Ron Amundson Rachel Ankeny Adrienne Asch Michael Bach Jon Beckwith Ingo Brigandt Teresa Burke Susan Campbell Sarah Carter Timothy Caulfield Gabriella Coleman Lennard Davis Susan Dodds Ian Dowbiggin Erika Dyck James Elkins Carl Elliott Nicola Fairbrother Joanne Faulkner Christine Ferguson Glenn Griener Jana Grekul Nora Groce Nancy Hansen Michael Hauskeller Cressida Heyes John-Paul Himka Huahima Heidi Janz Amy Kaler Ian Kerr Eva Kittay Lene Koch Jeff Kochan Harvey Krahn Rebecca Kukla Mianna Lotz Michael Lounsbury Judy Lytton Catriona MacKenzie Claudia Malacrida Ravi Malhotra Julie Maybee Carolyn McLeod Jeff McMahan Masahiro Morioka Leilani Muir Stuart Newman Melanie Panitch Erik Parens Geoffrey Reaume Jason Scott Robert Anita Silvers Dick Sobsey Edward Stein Nick Supina III John Sutton Shelley Tremain Douglas Wahlsten David Wasserman Cameron Wild Pamela Willoughby Robert A. Wilson (team organizer) Gregor Wolbring

Dr. Claudia Malacrida

Claudia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. She holds the position of University Scholar (Social Sciences) at the University of Lethbridge. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies Program at the University of Calgary, Canada, and, from 2005-2008, she was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada. Claudia received her Ph.D from the University of Alberta in 2001.

Claudia’s work as a teacher and researcher has, in her own words, allowed her “to investigate questions of power, gender, medicalization, and knowledge production”. The discipline of sociology has enabled Claudia to speak with segments of the population whose experiences are often ignored, including ex-inmates of the Michener Centre (an institution housing people identified as cognitively disabled in southern Alberta) and mothers with disabilities living in the community. Claudia’s research interests comprise disability, including institutionalization, eugenics, and family; poststructuralism; gender, including motherhood and helping professionals; and sexuality. Many of her research interests are incorporated into the courses she teaches, allowing her to introduce her students to issues that do not receive a great deal of attention.

Claudia has presented papers at conferences held around the world and has published many research articles, book chapters, and books. The following is a sample of some of her recent publications that relate to the themes being explored in the “What Sorts of People Should There Be?” project:

• Malacrida Claudia (2009). “Performing Motherhood in a Disablist World: Dilemmas of Motherhood, Femininity and Disability.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 23(1). 1-17.

• Malacrida, Claudia and Stefanie Duguay (2009). “ ‘The AISH Review is a Big Joke’: Contradictions of policy participation and consultation in a neoliberal context.” Disability & Society. 24 (1).

• Malacrida, Claudia and Jacqueline Low (2008). Sociology of the Body: A Reader. Toronto: Oxford University Press. Available for order.

• Malacrida, Claudia (2007). “Negotiating the Dependency/ Nurturance Tightrope: Dilemmas of Disabled Motherhood.” The Canadian Review of Sociology. 44 (4). 469 – 493.

• Malacrida, Claudia (2006). “Contested Memories: Efforts of the Powerful to Silence Former Inmates’ Histories of Life in an Institution.” Lessons from History: Special Issue. Disability & Society. 21 (5). 397 – 410.

• Malacrida, Claudia (2005). “Discipline and Dehumanization in a Total Institution: Institutional Survivors’ Descriptions of Time-Out Rooms. Disability & Society 20 (5). 523 – 537.

• Malacrida, Claudia (2004). “Medicalization, ambivalence and social control: Mothers’ description of educators and ADD/ADHD.” Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 8 (1). 61 – 80.

• Malacrida, Claudia (2003). Cold Comfort: Mothers, Professionals, and Attention Deficit Disorder. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Available for order.

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