Allies & Obstacles

Authors & editors

An anthropologist and two sociologists, in Canada and the United States, who have spent their careers studying disability, activism, and family.

  • Pamela Block

    Professor of Anthropology, Western University

    Pamela Block is Professor of Anthropology at Western University in London, Ontario, where she moved after many years teaching disability studies at Stony Brook University in New York.

  • Allison C. Carey

    Professor, Department of Political and Social Inquiry, Shippensburg University

    Allison C. Carey is Professor in the Department of Political and Social Inquiry at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania.

  • In memory · 1951 – 2026

    Richard K. Scotch

    Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Public Policy and Political Economy, The University of Texas at Dallas

    His first book, From Good Will to Civil Rights, told the story of how federal disability policy was transformed by the disability rights movement, and it remains essential reading decades later.