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Penny Richards

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Penny Richards

Research Scholar since 1999
turley2@earthlink.net

My current work spans several projects, but with a central interest in the ways disability history and women’s history can be researched, written, and presented in both traditional and open- access “web 2.0” settings. What does the opportunity to create accessible and searchable websites, blogs, photo archives, videos, databases, and communities online offer historians? What connections can be made with family history, local history, artists, and crafting communities? 

Penny Richards received her Ph.D. in Education at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill in 1996. At UC-Santa Barbara, she did postdoctoral research on the history of special education and disability in the United States. She is the editor of listservs concerning education and disability and has served on the steering committee of the Women’s Studies Seminars at the Huntington Library. She is the current president of the Disability History Association.

Blog: Letters from Sanquhar

Profile on H Net--Humanities and Social Sciences Online

Recent activities:

Florida Memory, the blog of the Florida Department of State's Division of Library and Information Services, posted an interview with me this month:

http://floridamemory.com/blog/2012/04/12/penny-richards/

And a USC student, Christie Lee, made a timelapse film of me doing chalk art at the Redondo Splashwall this weekend for Earth Day:

http://youtu.be/0Vl4VznCazE

 

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