Aparna Nair

Aparna Nair is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough, at the Department for Health and Society/Center for Global Disability Studies. From 2015 to the end of 2022, she worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma-Norman, in the History of Science department. Her upcoming book “Fungible Bodies” (2024) with the University of Illinois Press’ Disability Histories examines the relationship between disability and colonialism in British India. Professor Nair also works on the histories of technologies for disabled people (vision aids, hearing aids, prosthetics, etc); the histories of vaccination and quarantine in India; the material histories of vaccination (specifically the history of the vaccination certificate); and also work on the changing representations of disability and difference in popular culture. She also builds exhibits as part of her public history/humanities work.