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Karen Yoshida is a Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto, where she has significantly contributed to the fields of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science. Dr. Yoshida received her Ph.D. in 1991, focusing on Community Health and Sociology, particularly on Disability Studies. She is recognized for her leadership, having served as the president of the Canadian Disability Studies Association from 2014 to 2015. In 2008, she was a Fellow at Columbia University’s Summer Institute for Oral History. Her research interests include Critical Disability Studies, which she is currently mobilizing into non-academic spaces. Dr. Yoshida leads an SSHRC partnership grant titled 'Bodies Translation: Activist Art Technology Access Life,' where she conducts oral history studies featuring Canadian disabled artists and cultural activists. Her notable contributions to the field were acknowledged when she received the English Tanis Doe Award in 2020, an honor dedicated to individuals who advance the study and culture of disability in Canada.
Department of Sociology