Devva’s Published Works

  • 2007 to 2021, Disability Studies Quarterly , 1985-1987, 2005-2009
  • Jennifer Mankoff, Devva Kasnitz, Disability Studies, L. Jean Camp, Jonathan Lazar, Harry Hochheiser: Areas of Strategic Visibility: Disability Bias in Biometrics.CoRRabs/2208.04712 (2022)
  • August 2015 Editor, with Pamela Block, Akemi Nishida, Nick Pollard, Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice and Decolonizing Disability , Springer.
  • August 2015 with Pamela Block, Akemi Nishida, Nick Pollard, “Occupying Disability: An Introduction,” in Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice and Decolonizing Disability edited by Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, Nick Pollard, Springer.
  • August 2015 “Decolonizing Disability,” in Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice and Decolonizing Disability edited by Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, Nick Pollard, Springer.
  • August 2015 with Neil Marcus and Pamela Block, “If Disability is a Dance, who is the Choreographer? A Conversation about Life Occupations, Art, Movement,” in Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice and Decolonizing Disability, edited by Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, Nick Pollard, Springer.
  • August 2015 with Pamela Block, Akemi Nishida, and Nick Pollard, “Science (Fiction), Hope and Love: Conclusions,” I Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice and Decolonizing Disability, edited by Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, Nick Pollard, Springer.
  • 2014 with Jean Ashmore, “Disability Studies in Higher Education.” Chapter in Beyond the ADA Inclusive Policy and Practice for Students with Disabilities in Higher Education , pages 21-35. Edited by Mary Lee Vance, Neal E. Lipsitz, and Kaela Parks. National Association of Student Personnel Administrators/Washington, DC.
  • 2013 Report & Chartbook: The 2012 Biennial Association of Higher Education and Disability Survey of Disability Service and Resource Professionals in Higher Education: Employment and Compensation . WORD, PDF, DAISY FILE AT: http://www.ahead.org/membersarea.
  • 2012 “Forward,” Reframing Disability and Quality of Life: A Global Perspective . Edited by Narelle Warren and Lenore Manderson, pages v-vii.
  • 2012 with Pamela Block, “Participation, Time, Effort, and Speech Disability Justice,” Chapter 14, pp 195-217, in Politics of Occupation-Centered Practice: Reflections on Occupational Engagement Across Cultures , edited by Dikaios Sakellariou and Nick Pollard, John Wiley and Sons: Chicester.
  • 2011 with Gelya Frank, “The Meaning of Self-Care Occupations: Perspectives for New Practitioners from Occupational Science, Anthropology and Disability Studies,” Chapter 2, pp 27-45, in Ways of Living: Adaptive Strategies for Special Needs, 4th Edition , Edited by Charles H. Christiansen, and Kathleen M. Matuska. AOTA: Bethesda.
  • 2010 with Jennifer Mankoff and Gillian R. Hayes, “Disability studies as a Source of Critical Inquiry for the Field of Assistive Technology” in ASSETS ’10 Proceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ACM New York, NY, USA.
  • 2010 with Robert Pedlow and Russell Shuttelworth, “Barriers to the Adoption of Cell Phones for Older People with Impairments in the USA: Results from an Expert Review and Field Study” in Technology and Disability. 22: 1–12 1.
  • 2010 Review of: Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human . Tom Boellstorff. Princeton University Press.
  • 2008. ix+316pp. In Ethos . Special Issue: Rethinking Autism, Rethinking Anthropology: Guest Editors: Nancy Bagatell and Olga Solomon Volume 38, Issue 1, pages 1–3, March 2010.
  • 2008 “Collaborations from Anthropology, Occupational Therapy and Disability Studies,” in Block, P., Frank, G. & Zemke, R., Guest Editors, Anthropology, Occupational Therapy and Disability Studies , Practicing Anthropology , 30(3), Summer 2008.
  • 2006 with Linda Gonzales, Tom Seekins, and Dennis Stombaugh, “Accessible Rural Transportation: An Evaluation of the Traveler’s Cheque Voucher Program,” Special Issue: Disability and Community Development, Tom Seekins, ed. Community Development , 37(3): 106-115.
  • 2006 with Linda Gonzales, Tom Seekins, and Dennis Stombaugh, Placing Control in our Hands , Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living, Kent, Ohio. 2006 with Linda Gonzales, Tom Seekins, and Dennis Stombaugh, A Voucher Toolkit , Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living, Kent, Ohio.
  • 2005 with Tom Koch, Kirsten Johnson, and Ben Wisner, “Calypso Meets the Professions: Practicing in the Spirit of Jim Blaut,” in Antipode, Volume 37, Issue 5, pages 1011–1022, November 2005.
  • 2005 Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of Disability, Thousand Oaks: Sage. 2005 with Russell Shuttleworth, “Cultural Context of Disability,” in Encyclopedia of Disability , Gary Albrecht, Editor, Thousand Oaks: Sage. Volume 1, pps. 330-337.
  • 2005 with Joan Leon, “World Institute on Disability,” in Encyclopedia of Disability . Thousand Oaks: Sage.
  • 2004 with Russell Shuttleworth, “Stigma, Community, Ethnography: Joan Ablon’s Contribution to the Anthropology of Impairment-Disability,” Paper No. 1 in a 7-Part Special Issue on “Stigma, Suffering, Social Justice: Papers in Honor of Joan Ablon,” Marcia Inhorn, editor, Medical Anthropology Quarterly , 18(2): 139-161. 2004 with Russell Shuttleworth and Tom Seekins, Rural Disability, Leadership, and Civic Participation , The Rural Institute, University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
  • 2003 with Russell Shuttleworth, “Special Topics in Social/Cultural Anthropology: Anthropology & Disability.” in Instructional Materials for Sociology and Disability Studies , Edited by Lynn Schlesinger, Plattsburgh State University of New York, and Diane E. Taub, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, ASA Teaching Resources Center, 1722 N Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, (202) 833- 3410.
  • 2001 “Preface,” for Majid Turmusani, Disabled People and Economic Needs in the Developing World: A Political Perspective from Jordan . Ashgate Publishing Company, UK. 2001 with Russell Shuttleworth, “Special Topics In Social/Cultural Anthropology: Anthropology & Disability,” in Instructional Materials for Sociology and Disability Studies, Edited by Lynn Schlesinger, Plattsburgh State University of New York and Diane E. Taub, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, ASA Teaching Resources Center, 1722 N Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, (202) 833- 3410.
  • 2001 “Life Event Histories of Independent Living,” in M. Priestly, editor, Disability and the Life Course . Pages 67-79. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • 2001 with Russell Shuttleworth, “Anthropology in Disability Studies,” in The Semiotics of Dis/ability: Interrogating Categories of Difference , Pages 19-43. Linda J. Rogers and Beth Blue Swadener, editors. SUNY Press, Buffalo.
  • 2001 with Russell Shuttleworth, Guest Editors, Anthropology and Disability Studies, Special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly , 21(3) Summer.
  • 2001 with Russell Shuttleworth, “Introduction: Anthropology in Disability Studies,” Guest Editors, Anthropology and Disability Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly , 21(3), 2-17 Summer.
  • 2000 Editor, with Stephen Kurtzman, Accessible Housing Manual , Kate Toran. Position Papers in Disability Studies 2(1), WID. 2000 with David Pfeiffer, Sharon Bonney, and Rafi Aftendelian . “The Development of Disability Studies Curricula,” Disability Studies Quarterly , 20(2), 5-18.
  • 2000 et. al., “Disability Studies Programs in Colleges and Universities,” Position Papers in Disability Studies , 1(2).
  • 2000 “Afterword,” Sexuality and Disability , 18(4), 307-8. 2000 with Linda Gonzales, and Tom Seekins, “Rural Transportation Policy,” Position Papers in Independent Living and Disability Policy , 1(6). World Institute on Disability, Oakland.

  • 2000 with Linda Mona. “Introduction,” Communities in Transition: The Community Yardstick Project , World Institute on Disability, Oakland, August.

  • 1999 & 2000 with Linda Gonzales and Tom Seekins, Rural Transportation & Disability, Part One & Two, in Common Threads Newsletter , Fall/Winter. Rehabilitation Research and Training Center: Rural, Montana University Affiliated Rural Institute on Disabilities, The University of Montana, Missoula.</li
  • 1999 with Russell Shuttleworth, “Engaging Anthropology in Disability Studies,” Position Papers in Disability Studies , 1(1), Devva Kasnitz, editor, World Institute on Disability, Oakland.
  • 1999 with Linda Gonzales and Tom Seekins, “Taking on Rural Transportation,” Issue Briefs in Independent Living and Disability Policy , 1(4).
  • 1998 with Susan Stoddard and Lisa Whal, “Accessibility at Professional Meetings,” Disability Studies Quarterly , 18, 33-35.
  • 1998 review of, Disability and Culture , Ingstad & Whyte, editors, University of California Press, (1995). Disability Studies Quarterly , 18, 50-51.
  • 1998 review of, Helping Hands: A Video Guide to Accommodating Disabilities in the Workplace , by Nobles and Waterbury, Fanlight Productions, ISBN 1-57295-174-5, VHS, (1995), Disability Studies Quarterly , 18, 55.
  • 1998 review of, Interpreting Experience: The Narrative Study of Lives , Ruthellen Josselson and Amia Lieblich, editors, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California.
  • 1995. Disability Studies Quarterly, 18, 56.
  • 1998 review of, Ethics and Process in The Narrative Study of Lives , Ruthellen Josselson, editor, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, 1996.
  • Disability Studies Quarterly , 18, 56.
  • 1998 with Tanis Doe, “Leadership and Peer Support in the Independent Living Disability Rights Movement,” in Elaine Makas, Beth Haller, and Tanis Doe, editors, Insights and Outlooks: Current Trends in Disability Studies , Society in Disability Studies & The Muskie Institute, Portland, ME. 10
  • 1997 “Personal Assistance Services as Reasonable Accommodation at the Worksite,” in Elaine Makas, editor, Proceedings , Society for Disability Studies & The Muskie Institute, Portland, ME. 1997 with Pamela Nadash, “PAS on the Job,” in Consumer Choice News , Volume 2, Number 2, pages 2-3, Spring.
  • 1996 with B. Bruckner, and T. Doe, (1996) Leadership and Peer Support in the Independent Living Disability Rights Movement: Executive Summary . Oakland: Research and Training Center on Public Policy and Independent Living at the World Institute on Disability, Oakland, CA. 1994 “Personal Disability History Variables in Disability Research, Theory, and Advocacy,” in , Insights and Outlooks: Current Trends in Disability Studies, E. Makas and L. Schlesinger, editors, pages 77-85, Society for Disability Studies & The Muskie Institute, Portland, ME.
  • 1985 “Disability and Aging,” in Disability and Chronic Disease Quarterly , April 1985 Issue on Aging, Irving K. Zola, editor. April 1985 Vol. 5 No 2, pages 1-3. 1984 “Ethnicity in Australia: Toward a Theory of Application,” in a special issue Beyond Ethnic Boundaries , William Lockwood, editor, Michigan Discussions in Anthropology , Volume 2, No. 2, pages 42-65.
  • 1978 A Survey of Brunswick Health Consumers , Brunswick Community Health Service, Monograph Number One, Brunswick, Australia.
  • 1978 “Immigrant Women and Family Planning” (with Susan Van Der Vynck), in Ethnic Studies , Volume 2, No. 1, pages. 35-48.
  • 1978 Without Knowledge, Without Choice . Videotape made for the Family Planning Forum held at the Victorian College of General Practitioners, Melbourne, Australia (Director; 3/411 color tape).

  • 1975 Populist Economy on an Urban Island, monograph for The University of Michigan, Wayne State Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Louis Ferman Director, Ann Arbor, MI (mimeograph