Allison C. Carey
Professor, Department of Political and Social Inquiry, Shippensburg University
Biography
Allison C. Carey is Professor in the Department of Political and Social Inquiry at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. Her work examines disability rights, social movements, and the history of how the United States has granted and withheld citizenship from people with intellectual disabilities.
She grew up engaged with the intellectual disability community through her family and the Arc, and it was her parents’ work to support all of their children that first drew her to these questions.
In 2021 she received the award for an Outstanding Career in the Sociology of Disability from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Disability in Society.
Selected publications
- Family and Disability Activism: Beyond Allies and Obstaclesco-editor, Temple University Press, 2025
- Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilitiesco-author, Temple University Press, 2020
- Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canadaco-editor with Liat Ben-Moshe and Chris Chapman, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
- On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century AmericaTemple University Press, 2009