Research

My research generally falls into three areas: How we think about disability, what disability accessibility is, and interesting questions raised by current practices of disability accessibility.

Publications

  • Levit Ades, Rachel. “Not Between Models, But Above.” (2025). American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience, 16(1), 36-38. doi:10.1080/21507740.2024.2438020
  • Liebow, Nabina and Levit Ades, Rachel. (2022). “I Know What It’s Like”: Epistemic Arrogance, Disability, and Race. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 1-21. doi:10.1017/apa.2021.27
  • Levit Ades, Rachel. Review of “Improving Accessible Digital Practices in Higher Education: Challenges and New Practices for Inclusion.” Disability Studies Quarterly (2022)
  • Levit Ades, Rachel. “The ‘Rights” Road to Inclusion: Disability Rights, Care, and Normalcy.” Education, Inclusion and Justice, ed. Joan McGregor and Mark Navin, Springer (2022).

Selected Presentations

Refereed Conference Presentations

  • “Describing Humans: How to Create Ethical Alt-Text” Virtual National ADA Symposium, May 5, 2025. Great Plains ADA Center
  • “Beyond Performative Disability Theatre: Intellectual Disability and Creative Enagement” “Crip Innovations in Artmaking and Performance” panel. National Women’s Studies Annual Conference, November 2024
  • “The Ethics of AI and Image Descriptions” Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum, James Madison University, October 2023
  • “Philosophy for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities” Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum, University of Mississippi, October 2022
  • “Lessons from the ADA: Creating a Late Work Accommodations Process for Everyone” American Philosophical Association (APA)/American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) Teaching Hub Session “Disabled Philosophers: Equity and Accessibility in the Philosophy Classroom”
  • “The ‘Rights’ Road To Inclusion: Disability Rights, Care and Normalcy” American Association of Legal and Social Philosophy (AMINTAPHIL) Conference on Education, Inclusion, and Justice, October 2020
  • “The New (Old) Social Model of Disability” UNCA 3rd Biennial Philosophy of Disability Conference, March 2020
  • “Human Beings, or, The Modern Hephaestus: A Better Perspective On Emerging Technology and Disability” April 2018 Section: Disability Studies: Fanfic and Myth New Visions Graduate Conference, University of Arizona “Visualizing A Deaf City,” April 2016 Section: Seeing Disability New Visions Graduate Conference, University of Arizona

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