Research Associates & Staff

Sagit Mor is an Ed Roberts Postdoctoral Fellow in Disability Studies from Israel . Her dissertation explores the role of the differentiated structure of disability benefits in the scheme of ableism in Israeli society.  Her areas of academic interest include disability legal studies, disability critique of Israeli society, law and social change, and welfare law. She studied for her Bachelor Degree in Law at Tel Aviv University . For her Masters and Doctoral Degree in Law she studied at NYU School of Law. She is also admitted to the Israeli bar. She clerked for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Prof. Aharon Barak, worked as an attorney in Bizchut, a disability rights organization, and was also involved in various human rights activities in Israel and New York .

Robert Pedlow is from Australia . He completed his BSc. at the University of Adelaide in Psychology and Computer Science, and his MSc. and Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Melbourne . His Ph.D. thesis investigated the relationship between behavioral adjustment and linguistic politeness skills in 10-11 year-old children. He worked as a senior researcher in Human Factors for Telstra Corporation, Australia 's leading telecom company. The primary focus of his work concerned the accessibility of information technology for people with disability. As an Ed Roberts Fellow this year he will investigate the implications of the aging population for making technology useful and accessible for people with disability in future.

Russell Shuttleworth received his doctorate from the joint medical anthropology program at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. He was an Ed Roberts Postdoctoral Fellow in Disability Studies at IURD in 2002-2003. Past research includes an ethnographic study of men with cerebral palsy on their search for sexual intimacy; an outside program evaluation for the World Institute on Disability, Oakland, California’s “Workforce Improvement and Ticket to Work Acts Demonstration,” funded by the California Endowment; and more recently working with the Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living on a project investigating career paths of disabled rural political leaders. Current research includes a project on rural/exurban accessible transportation for disabled people in conjunction with the Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living, and a proposed project on the strategies and accommodation decisions of speech-impaired people. He co-teaches the course anthropology and disability at UC Berkeley and is a lecturer in the Human Sexuality Studies Program at San Francisco State University .