Vitalis Nwashindu

Research Interests

I am a historian of disability studies, gender, and sexualities in 19th and 20th-century Africa. My studies examine the intersections, complementarities, and differences in the indigenous and the Western imagination of disabilities, sexualities, and gender. My research also examines the colonial medicalization of indigenous bodies. I have engaged in the reconstruction of disabilities and injuries as historical sources, and markers of identities and memories among the indigenous peoples in Africa, and the American Indians. I have published peer-reviewed articles in international journals on these interests. 

As a social historian, I also study how institutions in the United States intersect with family in/stability, education, and employment since the 20th century.