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Research
Doug Baynton has a joint appointment in the Department of History and the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology. Doug's primary interest is the history of disability in the United States. His research and teaching explore how the cultural meanings of disabilities have changed over time, with particular interest in how the concept of disability can shed light on our understanding of such topics as nativism, eugenics, racial stereotyping, gender roles, and ideas of progress and decline, civilization and nature.
Doug Baynton's first book, Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language (1996), has become one of the defining books in the field of disability history, widely reviewed in both academic and general interest publications. He is the author of numerous articles on the history of disability and is currently writing a book on the concept of "defective persons" in the making of American immigration policy since the late nineteenth century.
Doug serves on the Editorial Board of Sign Language Studies. He has served as a consultant to public television (PBS) for a documentary, "History Through Deaf Eyes" and to National Public Radio for its broadcast, "Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project." Doug served as a consultant to the National Museum of American History for the "BodyWorks" exhibit in 1998 and on the planning committee for the Museum's "Exhibiting Disability" conference in 1999.
Doug Baynton received his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1993.
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