Rabia Belt is a legal historian specializing in disability and civil rights. Her research ranges from the cultural analysis of disability in the media to contemporary issues facing voters with disabilities to the historical treatment of Americans with disabilities. She is currently writing a book entitled “Nullification of Democracy in America: Mental Incapacity, Citizenship, Suffrage, and the Law, 1819-1920,” soon to be published in the Cambridge University Press Legal History Studies series. In 2015, the American Legal History Association selected her as a Katherine T. Pleyer Scholar for her paper, “Ballots for Bullets? Disenfranchisement of Civil War Veterans.”
Professor Belt is also an advocate for people with disabilities. In 2016, President Obama appointed her to the Board of Trustees of the National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency that advises the President, Congress and other federal agencies on policies and practices that affect people with disabilities. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Disability Rights Lawyers Association.
Prior to joining Stanford Law School, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center. Previously, he was a Summer Associate at Preston, Gates & Ellis LLP, a Parliamentary Intern at the South African Human Rights Commission, and a Research Intern at the Office of the Inspector General in Pigford v. Glickman and Brewington v. Glickman. He received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 2009 and his PhD in American Studies from the University of Michigan in 2015.
field of study
19th and 20th century US history, history of the disabled, history of law, law of democracy, history of suffrage, African American history, American Indian history, gender history
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