University of Illinois at Chicago

Post-Doc, Disability and Human Development

PhD

Thesis Title: Genealogies of resistance to incarceration: Abolition politics within de-institutionalization and anti- prison activism in the US, 1950-present

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EDUCATION
2002 – 2011 PhD in Sociology, Syracuse University
Dissertation topic: Genealogies of resistance to incarceration: Abolition politics in anti-prison and deinstitutionalization activism in the U.S. 
My dissertation looks at two main sites in which abolition of ‘total institutions’ are enacted. One is activism around the abolition of the prison-industrial-complex and the other is the move to close down institutions for people labeled mentally retarded or mentally ill, known as deinstitutionalization.
My goals in this study are twofold and interrelated. First, I investigate abolition and closure of institutions as a radical form of activism and sketch the costs and benefits of engaging in abolition as an activist tactic. My second aim is to demonstrate the interwoven relations between multiple sites of incarceration and the resistance to them.

2008 Certificate of Advance Study in Disability Studies, Syracuse University
2005 Certificate of Advance Study (C.A.S) in Women’s Studies, Syracuse, University

2000 - 2001 Graduate Courses in Sociology, Tel Aviv University, Israel
1996 - 2000 B.A. Honors (Magna Cum Laude), Sociology & Anthropology; B.A Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

SCHOLARSHIP
Books
Ben-Moshe, L. , Carey, A. and Chapman, C. (eds.) (forthcoming). Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Dis/Ability in North America. With a foreword by Angela Y. Davis (contract under negotiation)

Ben-Moshe, L., Feldbaum, M., Cory, R. and Sagendorf, K. (eds.) (2005). Building Pedagogical Curb Cuts: Incorporating Disability in the University Classroom and Curriculum. Syracuse, NY: Graduate School, Syracuse University (distributed and sold by SU Press)

Journal Publications
Ben-Moshe, L. (2011). Disabling Incarceration: Connecting Disability to Divergent Confinements in the USA. Critical Sociology 37 (6)

Ben-Moshe, L. (2011). The Contested meaning of “Community” in Discourses of Deinstitutionalization and Community Living in the Field of Developmental Disability. Research in Social Science and Disability Vol. 6, Special issue on Disability and Community

Ben-Moshe, L. and Colligan, S. (eds.) (2007). The State of Disability in Israel/ Palestine. Special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly 27 (4), with Introduction by the editors

Ben-Moshe, L. and Powell, J. (2007) Sign of our times? Revisi(tin)g the International Symbol of Access. Disability & Society Vol. 22, Issue 5: 489- 506 (peer-reviewed)
- abridged version in the “Icon” issue of Stimulus-Respond Magazine (November 2009)

Ben-Moshe, L. (Spring 2006). Infusing Disability in the Curriculum: The Case of Saramago’s Blindness. Disability Studies Quarterly, 26 (2) (peer reviewed)
- reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism (2009) Gale Cengage Learning
- Commentary on the article:
Ware, Linda (2006) The Again Familiar Trope: A Response to Infusing Disability in the Curriculum: The Case of Saramago's Blindness, Disability Studies Quarterly, 26 (2)
Gallagher, Deborah J. (2006) On Using Blindness as Metaphor and Difficult Questions: A Response to Ben-Moshe, Disability Studies Quarterly, 26 (2)

Book Chapters
Ben-Moshe, L., Nocella, A. J. II and Withers, AJ (forthcoming 2012) Queer-Cripping Anarchism: Intersections and Reflections on Anarchism, Queer-ness, and Dis-Ability. In Shannon, D. Rogue, J. and Darling, C. (eds.) Queering Anarchism. AK Press

Ben-Moshe, L (forthcoming 2012) Tensions between abolition and reform in prison abolition and deinstitutionalization movements: Learning from the past, lessons for the future. In Kaltefleiter, C., Nagel, M. and Nocella, A. J. II (eds.). Prison Abolition. Arissa Media Group

Ben-Moshe, L. and Colligan, Sumi (2010). Regimes of normalcy in the academy: The experiences of disabled faculty, in Nocella, A., Best, S. and McLaren, P. (eds.) Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex. AK Press

Ben-Moshe, L., Hill, D., Nocella, A. J. II, and Templer, B. (2009). Dis-Abling Capitalism and an Anarchism of ‘Radical Equality’ in Resistance to Ideologies of Normalcy, in Amster, R., DeLeon, A., Fernandez, L., Nocella, A., Shannon, D. (eds.) Contemporary Anarchist Studies, Routledge Press.

Ben-Moshe, L. (2005). Lame Idea: Disabling Language in the Classroom. In Ben-Moshe, L., Feldbaum, M., Cory, R. and Sagendorf, K. (eds.) Building Pedagogical Curb Cuts: Incorporating Disability in the University Classroom and Curriculum. Syracuse, NY: Graduate School, Syracuse University

Encyclopedia Entries
Burch, Susan (ed.)(2009) Encyclopedia of American Disability History. Facts on File
- International Symbol of Access, with Powell, Justin.
- Murderball. With Ferri, Beth.
- Social Control. With Nocella, Anthony J.
- Terminology. With Kirchner, Corinne.

COURSES TAUGHT
Sociology of Families
Sociology of Disability
Geography of Disability
Sociology of Sex & Gender
Images of Disability

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