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Director, Disability Studies Initiative
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Professor Rembis is adjunct faculty in the Department of History and the Director of the Disability Studies Initiative.
Rembis' areas of interest include the history of disability and the history of social science, especially eugenics and psychology. His dissertation, "Breeding Up the Human Herd: Gender, Power, and Eugenics in Illinois, 1890-1940," won the Florence Hemley Schneider Prize for promise of outstanding scholarship in a dissertation appropriate to Women's Studies. He has published several articles as well as a chapter in Susan Currell and Christina Cogdell, eds. Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s. His first book manuscript, Disabling Sex: Gender, Power, Eugenics, and Female Juvenile Delinquency in the United States, 1890-1960, is currently under review. In 2005, Rembis received a Mortar Board Senior Honorary for outstanding dedication to the students and faculty of the University of Arizona and in 2007 he was voted a “favorite professor” at Winter Commencement.
Prof. Rembis has taught the following courses:
Upper Division and Graduate
History 495F – Special Topics: History of Disability: A Global Perspective
History 495F – Special Topics: Analyzing the Nature/Nurture Debate from Darwin to the Present
History 495B – Topics in Black America: The Struggle for Equality in Slavery and in Freedom
History 452/552 – Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in U.S. History from Colonial Times to the Present
History 440/540 – U.S. History, 1945-Present
History 438/538 – U.S. History, 1917-1945
History 437/537 – U.S. History, Gilded Age and Progressive Era
History 396 – Undergraduate Research and Writing Seminar
History 332 – Vietnam and the Cold War
Women’s Studies 496G – Eugenics and Reproductive Technology
Lower Division
INDIV 103 – U.S. History Survey, 1877-Present
TRAD 102 – U.S. History Survey, Colonial-1877
INDIV 102 – Western Civilization, 1500-Present
History 101 – Western Civilization, Antiquity-1500 (Pima Community College, Tucson)
