Rabia Belt is a authorized historian whose scholarship focuses on incapacity and citizenship. Her scholarship ranges from cultural evaluation of incapacity in media, to modern points dealing with voters with incapacity, to the historic therapy of disabled Individuals. She is at present writing a guide titled, “Disabling Democracy in America: Psychological Incompetence, Citizenship, Suffrage, and the Regulation, 1819-1920” that’s forthcoming with within the Research in Authorized Historical past Collection with Cambridge College Press. In 2015, the American Society of Authorized Historical past named her a Kathryn T. Preyer Scholar for her paper, “Ballots for Bullets? The Disenfranchisement of Civil Battle Veterans.”
Professor Belt can also be an advocate for folks with disabilities. In 2016, President Obama named her as a Councilmember to the Nationwide Council on Incapacity, the impartial federal company that advises the President, Congress, and different federal businesses relating to insurance policies and practices that have an effect on folks with disabilities. Moreover, she served as a member of the Board of Administrators for the Incapacity Rights Bar Affiliation.
Previous to becoming a member of the Stanford Regulation school, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Analysis Educational Fellow at Georgetown College Regulation Middle. Earlier in her profession, she was a summer season affiliate at Preston, Gates & Ellis, LLP, a parliamentary intern with the South African Human Rights Fee, and a analysis intern on the Workplace of the Monitor for Pigford v. Glickman & Brewington v. Glickman. She acquired her JD from the College of Michigan Regulation Faculty in 2009 and her PhD in American Research from the College of Michigan in 2015.
Fields of Examine
- nineteenth and twentieth c. U.S. Historical past, Incapacity Historical past, Authorized Historical past, Regulation of Democracy
- Historical past of Suffrage, African American Historical past, American Indian Historical past, Gender Historical past
