A 2021 essay in The New York Times calls The Radical Lives of Helen Keller "a revelation". įilmmaker John Gianvito called The Radical Lives of Helen Keller "the best of the biographies" in a 2020 interview. She was the founding president of the Disability History Association, and her book A Disability History of the United States (2012) was described as "the first broad survey of its topic and the first work to lay out a complete periodization of American disability history". Nielsen has written biographies of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy, and participated as an on-screen expert in the American Masters episode, "Becoming Helen Keller" (2021). Career įor fourteen years, until 2012, she was a professor of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. At Macalester she was mentored by Peter Rachleff, and her thesis advisor at Iowa was Linda Kerber. She earned a BA from Macalester College in 1988, and from the University of Iowa an MA in 1991 and a PhD in 1996. Nielsen grew up largely in Northern Minnesota. Nielsen originally trained as historian of women and politics, and came to disability history and studies via her discovery of Helen Keller's political life. Since 2012, Nielsen has been a professor of history, disability studies, and women's studies at the University of Toledo. Nielsen is an American historian and author who specializes in disability studies.
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