James Trent
Degrees
Brandeis University, Ph.D.University of North Carolina, M.S.W.
Duke University, M.Div.
Wake Forest University, B.A.
Awards and Honors
Paul Simon Outstanding Scholar Award. Southern Illinois University (2001)
Hervey B. Wilbur Award, American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (1995)
Scholarship
Brian, Kathleen and Trent, James W, , eds.. Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Masculinity and Disability. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. (forthcoming)
George, Ivy and Trent, James W.. "Death on a Silver Platter: Masculinity, Disabilities, and the Noxon Murder Trials of 1944." Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Masculinity and Disability. Ed. Brian, Kathleen and Trent, James W.. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017 (forthcoming)
Trent, James W'. "’Vulgar Appearing Little Bodies’: Samuel G. Howe and American Missionaries in Greece, 1827-1830." Journal of Unitarian-Universalist History 39. 2015-2016 (2016): 1-18.
Trent, James W.. Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States. 2nd Revised ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Trent, James W.. "Disabilities: Intellectual and Developmental." Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology. 2015.
Trent, James W.. "Schooling for Public Life: Hope and Frustration of Education at the New England School for the Blind, 1832-1867." The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife. Deerfield, MA. June 2015.
Trent, James. "A Season in Hell’s Palace: My Journey to Randall Deihl’s Painting, ‘The Belchertown State School’." Kahn Institute Conference: “Excavating the Image: The Belchertown State School by Randall Deih. Smith College, Northampton, MA. 01/09/2014.
Trent, James W.. The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.
Trent, James W.. "Essay Review of What Is Mental Retardation? Ideas for an Evolving Disability in the 21st Century." Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 46. June (2008): 252-256.
Trent, James W.. "Intellectual Disabilities in the USA: From the Institution to the Community, 1948 – 2001." Community Care in Perspective: Care, Control and Citizenship. Ed. Jan Walmsley and John Welshman. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 109-121.
Noll, Steven and Trent, James W., eds. Mental Retardation in America: An Historical Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2004.
Trent, James W.. "’Who Shall Say Who Is a Useful Person?’ Abraham Myerson’s Opposition to the Eugenics Movement." History of Psychiatry 12. 1 (2001): 33-57.
Trent, James W.. "Defectives at the World’s Fair: Constructing Disability in 1904." Remedial and Special Education 19. July/August (1998): 200-211.
Trent, James W.. "Institutionalization and Deinstitutionalization in the United States: History and Historiography." University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 1996.
Trent, James W. "Defining Abnormality: Displays of "Defectives" at the 1904 Saint Louis World’s Fair.." Defining Normality, Linkoping University, Sweden. 1995.
Trent, James W.. "Suffering Fools: Can a Simple Redefinition Change Attitudes toward Mental Retardation?." The Sciences 35. July/August (1995): 18-22.
Trent, James W.. Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Trent, James W.. "To Cut and Control: Constructing Justification to Sterilize Mentally Retarded People, 1892-1947." Journal of Historical Sociology 6. March (1993): 57-73.
Trent, James W.. "Associations for Retarded Citizens and Adult Residential Care: Is There Only One Effective Role?." Adult Residential Care Journal 3. Summer (1989): 79-92.
Trent, James W.. "A Decade of Declining Involvement: American Sociology in the Field of Child Development, the 1920s." Sociological Studies of Child Development. vol. 2 Ed. Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler. JAI Press, 1987. 11-37.