My Biography
Arseli Dokumacı (she/hers) is a Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Media Technologies, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. Arseli is the director of Access in the making (AIM) Lab, and is the author of Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Livable Worlds (Duke UP, 2023), which won the 2023 Alison Piepmeier Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association, and the 2024 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize from the Canadian Communication Association. Arseli’s research lies at the crossovers of critical disability studies, medical anthropology, environmental humanities, and performance studies, and has appeared in various journals including Current Anthropology, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Performance Research. Arseli is a video-maker and artist, and her work has been showcased at various exhibitions in Canada, the United States, and Spain.