![]() Elizabeth Taylor Prize of the Southern Association of Women Historians for the best article in the field of southern women’s history for her article “The Southern Ties of Helen Keller,” published in the Journal of Southern History, a Founders Award for Excellence in Teaching, an NEH Summer Fellowship, a 2005 OAH lectureship in Japan, and a Fulbright Scholars Award to the University of Iceland. In 2010 the Organization of American Historians (OAH) honored Nielsen by appointing her a Distinguished Lecturer. ![]() Other books include Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller (Beacon, 2009) Helen Keller: Selected Writings (NYUP, 2005) The Radical Lives of Helen Keller (NYUP, 2004) and Un-American Womanhood: Anti-Radicalism, Anti-Feminism, and the First Red Scare (OSUP, 2001). ![]() ![]() A Disability History of the United States (Beacon, Oct 2012), Nielsen’s newest book, is the first analysis of disability throughout United States history and covers the period prior to European arrival through the present. ![]() in History from the University of Iowa in 1996, Nielsen’s scholarship has centered on historical debates about who is fit to participate in civic life using gender, disability, and changing notions of competency as her tools of analysis. Professor of Disability Studies, History, and Women’s & Gender Studies. ![]()
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