Aparna Nair
Affiliate, Centre for South Asian Studies, Asian Institute
Assistant Professor, Department for Health and Society, UTSC
Assistant Professor, Center for Global Disability Studies, UTSC
Areas of interest
- Disability History
- History of Medicine
- History of Public Health
- Disability Studies
- History of Technology
- Popular Culture
- Ephemera and Material Culture
- Oral Histories
- Animal Histories
Biography
Main Bio
Aparna Nair is a historian of disability, medicine and public health. Her forthcoming book Fungible Bodies is under contract with the University of Illinois Press' Disability Histories series, and explores the relationships between disability, race and colonialism in British India. Her other work examines the material histories of public health, the histories of guide dogs and service animals, the experience of epilepsy in modern Kerala, and popular culture and disability. She can also be founding collecting and writing about comics, seals, and "disability things."
Select publications
- Enumerating Infirmity: Disability, Demography and Empire, 1831-1950," Osiris, Volume 39, July 2024
- “Sometimes the Yoni is Like a Jasmine Flower:” The Vayattati’s Hands in Twentieth Century Kerala, Bulletin for the History of Medicine, Accepted, Forthcoming, 2024-2025