Nicole recently published “‘Confined to Crutches’: James Logan and the Material Culture of Disability in Early America,” Pennsylvania Legacies, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Fall 2017): 6-11.
Nicole Belolan
Ph.D., Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1728-1861
I study history through everyday things. I am working on a book and exhibition project related to my dissertation, “Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1728-1861.″ I am investigating the experience and meaning of disability in early America using archival sources as well as objects in museum collections ranging from artificial limbs and adult cradles to gout cranes and crutches.
Updates
has been selected by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities to participate in their Public Scholars Project. New Jersey non-profits will be able to apply to have her present her workshop on site called "Disabilities Then, Disabilities Now."
Nicole has accepted a position at Rowan University as the Megan Giordano Fellow in Public History and the Curator at Redbank Battlefield and the Whitall House in Gloucester County, NJ.
Belolan has won fellowship support from four sources for 2015-16: A University Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Delaware; a Winterthur Library Dissertation Fellowship; a Center for Historic American Visual Culture Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society; and a Caesar Rodney Fellowship from the General Society of Colonial Wars.
Belolan has won fellowship support from four sources for 2015-16: A University Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Delaware; a Winterthur Library Dissertation Fellowship; a Center for Historic American Visual Culture Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society; and a Caesar Rodney Fellowship from the General Society of Colonial Wars.
2014-15 Research Fellow, 2017-18 Fellow in Residence