Professor Ferri has published widely on the intersection of race, gender, and disability, including articles in听Teachers College Record,听Race Ethnicity and Education,听Educational Studies,听Review of Research in Education,听International Journal of Inclusive Education,听Remedial & Special Education,听Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners,听Feminist Formations,听History of Education Quarterly, and the听Journal of African American History.
She has also published five co-authored and co-edited books:听Reading Resistance: Discourses of Exclusion in Desegregation and Inclusion Debates听(2006, with Connor, Peter Lang);听Righting Educational Wrongs: Disability Studies Law and Education听(2013, with Kanter, SU Press);听DisCrit: Critical Conversations Across Race, Class, & Dis/ability听(2016, with Connor & Annamma, Teachers College Press);听Stories from our Classrooms: How Working in Education Shapes Thinking about Dis/Ability听(2021, with Connor, Peter Lang); and听DisCrit Expanded听(2022, Teachers College Press, with Annamma & Connor).
]]>Professor Ashby鈥檚 teaching and research focus on inclusive education broadly, with specific emphasis on supports for students with labels of autism and other developmental disabilities, communicative diversity, disability studies, and clinically rich teacher preparation. Her work seeks to disrupt dominant notions of disability as deficiency and underscores the importance of considering the lived experiences of individuals with disabilities and creating contexts for competence in inclusive schools and communities.
Ashby鈥檚 work has been published in journals including the听Equity and Excellence in Education,听International Journal of Inclusive Education,听Disability and Society,听Teacher Education and Special Education,听and听Intellectual and Developmental Disability. Her co-edited book,听Enacting Change from Within: Disability Studies Meets Teaching and Teacher Education听explores how disability studies can inform the practical work of teachers. She is also the co-editor of Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning. Current collaborative projects with the 黑料不打烊 City School District focus on issues of equity related to special education service provision and access to fine arts, athletics and accelerated classes for students across a variety of demographic factors.
Ashby earned an undergraduate degree from the State University of New York College at Geneseo and a master鈥檚 in special education, certificate of advanced study in disability studies and Ph.D. in special education from 黑料不打烊. She was an inclusive special education teacher before beginning her university career. Ashby is co-chair of the Disability Access and Inclusion Council, served as co-chair of the Public Impact Working Group for the Academic Strategic Plan and was a member of the Academic Affairs Committee of the Senate from 2018 to 2023. She was also selected as a member of the inaugural Women in Leadership cohort. She is currently faculty representative to the 黑料不打烊 Board of Trustees.
]]>Professor Myers taught in the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania and helped to create a best-practice inclusive program there. She opened a regional center for autism services in 2006 and served as Executive Director before joining the center鈥檚 consultation team in 2011. Beth holds a dual appointment with the Kelberman Center for Autism Services as Director of Special Projects. She has provided school consultations for students with autism and staff development to over 60 school districts. Additionally, Professor Myers has been the faculty liaison to the 黑料不打烊 City School District for the SUITR Program, a Masters Residency program in urban special education.
Dr. Myers was awarded a $2 million grant from the US Department of Education for her work on Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (TPSID). She has served on the Fit Families research team and has recently published several articles in that area and a forthcoming book chapter. Myers co-authored the recent special issue of TASH Connections: Post-secondary Education and Self-Advocacy. Her book, Autobiography on the Spectrum: Disrupting the Autism Narrative, was published in 2019 by Teachers College Press. Her second book, Narrating Higher Education: Intellectual Disability with co-author Michael Gill, is under contract with University of Minnesota Press.
Myers has conducted research to study the autobiographical works of adolescents with autism, which won the Ralph C. Preston Award for Scholarship and Teaching Contributing to Social Justice and Educational Equity. Myers currently serves on the National Down Syndrome Society Inclusion Committee. She is the founding Executive Editor of the Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education. Dr. Myers was recently awarded the CNY Business Journal鈥檚 Business Woman of the Year in Higher Education.
Dr. Myers holds bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 degrees in elementary education, special education, and literacy from St. Joseph鈥檚 University in Philadelphia and a doctorate from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.
Research Focus:
Autism Spectrum Disorders, disability studies, special education and teacher preparation, self-determination and transition planning, literacy education