Rebecca Ellis

Rebecca Ellis is a Research Fellow in the Roots of Contemporary Issues Program at Washington State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of New Mexico (2016), specializing in labor, gender, and disability history in Argentina. Her research examines how blindness intersected with gender norms and eugenics in 20th-century Argentina. She has received prestigious fellowships including the Fulbright International Research Fellowship and the Russell J. Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship.

Her teaching focuses on modern medicine's social history and contemporary issues like public health inequality and globalization through pandemics. Current courses include Humans and the Environment and Globalization: Global Pandemics.

• Research Highlights: Manuscript “Dignified Labors: Work, Gender, and Blindness in Buenos Aires” analyzes blind activists’ struggles for dignified labor.
• Awards: Fulbright, Russell J. Bilinski, and Latin American Institute Fellowships.

Dr. Ellis collaborates with interdisciplinary teams in WSU’s Arts and Sciences division and contributes to historical discourse on disability and gender through publications like her upcoming article in Phallacies: Historical Intersection of Disability and Masculinity (Oxford University Press).