To Val Moyer, Alexandra Wagner and Dian Ramawati for completing the Disability Studies Graduate certificate in May• To Alexandra Wagner, Dian Ramawati and Andy Eicher for completing and passing comprehensive examinations in your doctoral programs.• To Andy Eicher for defending your dissertation proposal: "PrEParing for the Future: HIV/AIDS, Personal Responsibility, and Imagining Otherwise.• To Chris-Mike Agbelie for being awarded Turner Summer Fellowship, Turner Academic year Fellowship, and for passing the first round of review of the Fulbright Hayes competition for his dissertation project: "Effects of Cash Transfers on Lived Experiences of People with Disabilities in Ghana"• To Dr. Sylette Henry-Buckmire for defending her dissertation: "Mobility-as-Occupation: Justice Manoeuvres and Negotiations in Trinidad and Tobago," this work combines disability studies, mobility studies, ethnography, and occupational studies to look at the lived experiences of disabled people in T & T as they become mobile or are prevented from doing so. Dr. Henry-Buckmire has developed a means to assess mobility and disability that is highly relevant for occupational therapists, policy-makers and activists around the globe.• To Dr. Cassandra Evans as she starts her new job as Project Manager for the "Completion for Upper-class Students" (CUSP) Program at CUNY/JJAY. She will work with students who are close to graduating, but also at high risk for dropping out due to lack of finances, poor preparation, first-generation barriers, work and family responsibilities and disabilities. This is an excellent segue from Dr. Evan's December 2017 dissertation "Asylum to Community and In Between: Examining the post-Deinstitutionalization Transitional Experiences of Mentally Disabled Individuals." • To Abena Asare for the publication of her book (flyer attached): Truth without Recounciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15877.html• To Lisa Diedrich for her new publication: “PTSD: A New Trauma Paradigm,” Trauma and Literature (“Cambridge Critical Concepts” series), edited by J. Roger Kurtz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 83-94, and her recent Keynote, “General Practices: Illness and Disability in Action,” Artificial Life: Debating Medical Modernity, UC Riverside, 19-21 April 2018• To Patricia Dunn for her essay “Promoting Equity and Justice Through Text Choices, Questions, and Ways of Writing.” Disabling Assumptions: Promoting Equity and Justice through Text Choices, Questions, and Ways of Writing Column. English Journal 107.6 (2018): 129-131.• To Carrie Shandra for her article: Shandra, Carrie L. 2018. "Disability as Inequality: Social Disparities, Health Disparities, and Participation in Daily Activities." Social Forces 97(1):157-192.• To Liz Montegary for her books Mobile Desires: the Politics and Erotics of Mobility Justice: https://www.palgrave.com/
