Ph.D., Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Fellow in Residence
2017 - 2018

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.

Michael Levy speaking at the Sickness and the City event, held at the New York Academy of Medicine on October 24, 2018

Michael Levy speaking at the Sickness and the City event, held at the New York Academy of Medicine on October 24, 2018.