Sandy Sufian
Professor, Disability Studies; Professor, Health Humanities and History
Biography
Sandy Sufian is a professor of health humanities and history in the UIC Department of Medical Education and a professor of disability studies in the UIC Department of Disability and Human Development.
Sufian specializes in the history of medicine and disability and in sexual and reproductive health issues for women with chronic illnesses. She teaches courses on the history of disability and the modern history of medicine and public health to medical, master’s and doctorate students.
Sufian has had grant funding from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Institute, UIC and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She led a project that created Cystic Fibrosis Sexual and Reproductive Health Issues in Women’s Lives: a Resource Guide for Providers and Patients.
She has published three books, most recently, “Familial Fitness: Disability, Adoption, and Family in Modern America,” “Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist Project in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1947” and “Reapproaching the Border: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel/Palestine.” She has published numerous scholarly articles and op-eds, including in Scientific American and InsideHigherEd.