Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons, a White/Asian woman, wearing square black rimmed glasses and smiling.

Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons

PhD Candidate in Disability Studies, University Fellow, Disability and Human Development

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Email

hgibbo2@uic.edu

Office Phone

312-413-1647

Office

1640 W. Roosevelt Rd., 715 DHSP

Mail Code

626

Office Hours

By Appointment

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CV

Hailee Yoshizaki Gibbons CV

About

Hailee M. Yoshizaki-Gibbons is a PhD Candidate in Disability Studies and University Fellow. Hailee teaches DHD 400: Disability and Human Development Capstone. Hailee's research interests include intersections of disability and aging, dementia, intersectionality, mental disabilities and neurodivergence, disability identity and disclosure, disability in higher education, and qualitative methodology. Her dissertation is an ethnographic study of dementia units in nursing homes in Chicago that explores the lived experiences of old women with dementia and the women who care for them, and analyzes how gender, race, class, age, and disability intersect to influence care in an institutional context. Hailee's work has been published in Review of Disability Studies, Disability & Society, and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. She has a chapter, "The (Im)peristence of Memory: Crip Time and the Politics of Dementia" in the forthcoming anthology, The Aging/Disability Nexus as well as a chapter, "Engaging with Aging: The Greying of Critical Disability Studies" in the forthcoming anthology, Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies.

Selected Publications

“Compulsory Youthfulness: Intersections of Ableism and Ageism in "Successful Aging" Discourses”, Review of Disability Studies

“Siblings with Disabilities: A Duoethnography on the Intersections between a Sibling Relationship and Disability”, Disability & Society

“Perceptions of Health and Healthcare of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Enrolled in Medicaid Managed Care”, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

“Caregiving and Family Support Interventions: Crossing Networks of Aging and Developmental Disabilities”, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Service to the Community

Hailee is on the Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Persons with Disabilities, and the Chair of its Student Advisory Board. She also is the Vice President of the Disability and Human Development Student Association. Outside of UIC, Hailee is on the Queer Caucus Steering Committee for the Society for Disability Studies and volunteers with an improv theater program for people with dementia.

Notable Honors

2017 - CCCC Disability in College Composition Travel Award, NCTE

2016 - Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring Award, Honors College, University of Illinois at Chicago

2015 - Kate Welling Disability Studies Lecture Series Emerging Scholar, Miami University

2015 - Anne Hopkins Scholarship Award, Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago

Education

Master of Science, Student Affairs in Higher Education, Miami University of Ohio, 2013
Bachelor of Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Studies with a Concentration in Gerontology, Psychology, and Family Studies, Miami University of Ohio, 2008