Stephanie van Dam
@stephvandam.bsky.social
Social and economic historian with global outlook. Postdoc @French School of Public Health (EHESP) on transnational histories of disability and ageing. PhD @Cambridge on disability & labour in British colonies. Likely to interrupt you to point at a tree.
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My book on human rights and disability internationalism since the 1960s is available for preorder (discount code: CUP20), for more info and kind words of Dagmar Herzog and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social see: cup.columbia.edu/book/progres...
Progress from the Margins | Columbia University Press
The 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities differs markedly from other forms of international human rights law: it not onl... | CUP
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November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My book on human rights and disability internationalism since the 1960s is available for preorder (discount code: CUP20), for more info and kind words of Dagmar Herzog and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social see: cup.columbia.edu/book/progres...
Was fun to be in the National Archives in the Hague again, 1st time since visiting as a student! Found some revealing records about changes in the financial position of disabled people in the Netherlands after 1945 - a request to fund research documenting financial inequality was denied #dishist
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Was fun to be in the National Archives in the Hague again, 1st time since visiting as a student! Found some revealing records about changes in the financial position of disabled people in the Netherlands after 1945 - a request to fund research documenting financial inequality was denied #dishist
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Records of the International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability available at @archivum.org
Great holdings, and they also offer fellowships with stipend. #dishist
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Great holdings, and they also offer fellowships with stipend. #dishist
archivum.org/news/executi...
Executive Board Records of FIMITIC Now Open for Research
The first series of the Records of the International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability (FIMITIC) is now open for research.
archivum.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Records of the International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability available at @archivum.org
Great holdings, and they also offer fellowships with stipend. #dishist
archivum.org/news/executi...
Great holdings, and they also offer fellowships with stipend. #dishist
archivum.org/news/executi...
Had my - to quote my friend - 'legally blonde moment' at graduation and felt it might be time to leave the PhD-pyjama era behind and move back into public! So, hello!! Very happy to say I did the PhD thing and am now a not-that-kind-of-Doctor at the School of Public Health (EHESP, France)
November 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Had my - to quote my friend - 'legally blonde moment' at graduation and felt it might be time to leave the PhD-pyjama era behind and move back into public! So, hello!! Very happy to say I did the PhD thing and am now a not-that-kind-of-Doctor at the School of Public Health (EHESP, France)