David J. Connor
Professor Emeritus, Special Education, Hunter College
David J. Connor, EdD, is a former high school teacher and Professor Emeritus of the Special Education Department, Hunter College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Urban Education doctoral program at CUNY’s Graduate Center. David is the author/editor of several books, the most recent being: Contemplating Dis/ability in Schools and Society: A Life in Education (2018); Rethinking Disability: A Disability Studies Guide to Inclusive Practices (2nd ed.), co-authored with Jan Valle (2019); How Teaching Shapes our Thinking about Disabilities: Stories From the Field, co-edited with Beth Ferri (2021); DisCrit Expanded: Inquiries, Reverberations & Ruptures, co-edited with Subini Annamma and Beth Ferri (2022); and Enacting Disability Critical Race Theory: From the Personal to the Global (2023), co-edited with Beth Ferri and Subini Annamma. His research interests include learning disabilities, inclusive education, and intersectional understandings of disability. For more information, see hunter-cuny.academia.edu/DavidJConnor.
