Sarah Handley-Cousins is an Associate Teaching Professor at the University at Buffalo. Sarah is the author of Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North, published by the University of Georgia Press in 2019, which received the 2020 Disability History Association Outstanding Book Award. She is a co-author of Spiritualism’s Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Séances in Lily Dale, published by Cornell University Press in 2024. Along with the Nursing Clio Editorial Collective, Sarah published The Nursing Clio Reader with Rutgers University Press in 2025. She is currently at work on a second monograph, A Singular Case: Race, Disability, and Murder in Rural New York State, and is co-editing the forthcoming Routledge History of Disability in America with Laurel Daen. Sarah is also committed to accessibly communicating critical histories to public audiences, and serves as Executive Editor of Nursing Clio and a producer of Dig: A History Podcast.