Dr. Stephen Gilson is currently professor of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies at the University of Maine.

(See my biography page for more information).


Publications:
Universal Web Access: An Intelligent Web Interface

In this session we present a project focusing on the development, testing and deployment of an intelligent web interface to advance universal access to web information.

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Moving Beyond Nomothetic Category: Diversity as Symmetry

In this paper, we advance a new conceptualization, a progressive theory of diversity that builds on contemporary theory and is informed by a broad examination of interdisciplinary literature and practice.

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Geographic Analysis for the Social Sciences: Illustration through Prevention Science Research

In this paper, we discuss and illustrate an innovative multi-faceted prevention research model, relevant to the full range of social and health problems experienced by global communities.

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The Bell-Shaped Curve: Alive, Well and Living in Diversity Rhetoric

In this presentation, we analyze symbol in diversity politics and illustrate how the bell curve tacitly maintains the diversity-destructive normal/abnormal binary.

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Da Vinci’s Ill Fated Design Legacy: Homogenization and Standardization

In this paper, we examine how da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man has been apprehended as a contemporary mechanism of social, environmental, cultural, bodily, and expressive control and propose alternative conclusions.

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Designer Diversity: Constructing Bodies and Backgrounds through Contemporary Design Theory

This paper critically explores and indicts design as a prime mover, brander, and political force in creating and reifying diversity categories and group identities.

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