Nicole Belolan

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.