Dr. Mark Sherry

I am writing a book which aims to provide a social model of impairment (as distinct from a social  model of disability). This will be published by Routledge.

I am co-editing a book called "Disability Hate Speech"  alongside Terje Olsen,  John E. Eriksen  and Janikke S. Vedeler (all from Nordland Research Institute, Norway).  We have jointly written the Introduction, and I am also co-authoring a chapter on an Australian campaign against the R-word with Julia Hawkins.

I am currently co-writing an article on disability hate crime alongside Prof. Hab Beata Borowska-Beszta, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland.

I have written a chapter entitled "Sex Trafficking, Activism and Disability" for a forthcoming book edited by Karen Soldatic and Kelley Johnson  entitled "Disability, Activism and Advocacy."

You can find my recent review of "Disability and Masculinities" in Disability and Society here https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09687599.2018.1438051

I have written an article on brain injury for the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies entitled "Brain Injury Survivors: Impairment, identity and neoliberalism." It has been accepted and will come out in the Fall.

On August 11, I I gave a talk on "The invisibility of disability in sex trafficking activism (and the need to rethink sexual access") at the ASA conference in Philadelphia.

I spoke at the conference International Network for Hate Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in  Oshawa, Ontario, Canada on May 30, 2018.  My talk was on "The Unique Characteristics of Disability Hate Crimes "

I spoke at the  Euro-Conference on Disability Studies and Disability Activism in Malta on May 3.  My talk was entitled "Critiquing 'sex rights': Disabled men using disabled women who are victims of sex trafficking." 

I gave a Keynote lecture at the  First International Seminar on Educational Ethnography and Disability Studies  at  Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland on 10 April 2018. My talk was entitled "Working with brain injury survivors from the inside out." 

I spoke on "A Social Model of Impairment" at the Department of Sociology at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan on February 26.

I spoke on "Strategies for improving student learning in an online environment" at the Online Conference "Virtuality and education - future perspectives" hosted by Nicolaus Copernicus University,  Poland on May 30.

My book, "Disability Hate Crimes: Does Anyone Really Hate Disabled People?" was quoted in the August edition of the Southern Poverty Law Center newsletter. "Intelligence Report."

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2018/invisible-hate-crime

I oppose Facilitated Communication as a discredited, pseudoscientific sham.  Unfortunately, some universities continue to market it. Here is a story where I was quoted about it. 

https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/facilitated-communication-conference-draws-fire-at-uni/article_3858aa2d-adce-5b76-9b83-a3d23e185a79.html

"Inside Higher Education" ran a story on the conviction of the Disability Studies/Ethics Professor who was convicted of sexually assaulting a disabled man.  I was quoted in the story.

 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/12/professor-accused-raping-disabled-man-sees-her-convictions-overturned

My talk at the Grand Valley State University was covered in the Grand Valley Lanthorn newspaper. http://www.lanthorn.com/article/2018/02/news-mark-sherry-lecture