Join us for Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons’ talk on Wednesday, January 28th from 1:00-2:30 in 3401 Sterling Hall! The title of her talk is: “I Am Going Home!”: Abolitionist and Freedom-Making Practices in Dementia Units of Nursing Homes.
Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons is Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Director of the Eclectic Scholars Honors Program at Hiram College. She received her Ph.D. in disability studies with a concentration in gender and women’s studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research has appeared in journals like Disability & Society, Research on Aging, and the Review of Disability Studies and in a variety of edited collections. Her current project analyzes how temporality influences the care relationships between old women with dementia and the immigrant women of color employed to care for them in dementia units of nursing homes.