The Baldy Center Podcast

Episode 6 of the podcast features David Gerber, emeritus professor of history at UB and Bruce Dierenfield of Canisius College. Professors Gerber and Dierenfield discuss their new book, focused on the Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District case at the crossroads of disability rights and church-state separation.

Keywords: Constitutional Law, Education Policy, Legal History, Disability Rights, Church-State Separation.

David A. Gerber is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus and Emeritus Director of the Center for Disability Studies at the University at Buffalo. He is a social historian with interests in identity and groups in American History. Gerber recently authored in immigration and ethnic history: Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century (2006), and American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction (2011). Recent works in the history of disability include, as editor, Disabled Veterans in History (enlarged and revised edition, 2012). See faulty profile.  Visit Gerber's website.

Bruce J. Dierenfield is professor emeritus of American history at Canisius College, Buffalo NY. Dierenfield has written six books, including the prize-winning The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America (2007), The Civil Rights Movement (revised edition, 2008), and A History of African-American Leadership (3rd edition, 2012). He has also completed another book manuscript entitled, “Separating Church & State: How the Minnesota Affiliate of the ACLU Led the Nation in Religious Liberty.”