Dis/ability in Media, Law and History (ePub)

Micky Lee is a Professor of Media Studies at Suffolk University, Boston. She has published in the areas of feminist political economy; information, technologies, and finance. Her latest books are Media Technologies for Work and Play in East Asia: Critical Perspectives on Japan and the Two Koreas (Bristol University Press, 2021; co-edited with Peichi Chung, Chinese University of Hong Kong), Information (Routledge, 2021), Alphabet: The Becoming of Google (Routledge, 2019), and Bubbles and Machines: Gender, Information, and Financial Crises (University of Westminster Press, 2019).

Frank Rudy Cooper is William S. Boyd Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Race, Gender & Policing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law. He is co-editor of Masculinities and Law: A Multidimensional Approach (with Ann C. McGinley, 2012). He has published 30 articles on racial profiling, cultural studies, policing, masculinities studies, and intersectionality theory in venues such as the Boston University Law Review, the University of California - Davis Law Review, the University of Illinois Law Review, and the Arizona State Law Journal. His most recent publication is Fight the Power!: Law and Policy Through Hip-hop Songs (Cambridge University Press, 2022) (co-edited with Gregory S. Parks).

Patricia Reeve is an Associate Professor of U.S. History at Suffolk University. Her research focuses on 19th-century workers in the United States and their reimagining of citizenship as an embodied status in response to unprecedented and disabling industrial accidents. Currently, she is researching Suffolk County Coroners' Inquests conducted from 1775 through 1860 which provide an important lens on Bostonians' public lives, occupations, and health. Patricia also co-directs the annual American Studies Institute co-sponsored by the Graduate Program in American Studies at University of Massachusetts Boston and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.