Ruth O'Brien

O'Brien was born in Spokane, Washington, and grew up in California.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}} In 1977 she become a page in the U.S. House of Representatives after being nominated by Representative William M. Ketchum.{{Cite news |date=1977-08-07 |title=O'Brien serves as page |pages=31 |work=The Bakersfield Californian |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97061557/obrien-serves-as-page/ |access-date=2022-03-06}} She earned a B.A. from Claremont Men's College (now Claremont McKenna College) as part of the first group of women to enroll, {{Citation needed|date=March 2022}} and a Ph.D. in political science from University of California, Los Angeles (1991).{{Cite thesis |title=State-building and political parties: the creation of American industrial relations policy in the 1920s |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28615741 |date=1991 |language=English |first=Ruth |last=O'Brien|oclc = 28615741}} Following her Ph.D., O'Brien taught at the University of Denver before moving to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York in 1993.{{Cite web |title=Ruth O'Brien {{!}} Graduate Center of the City University of New York - Academia.edu |url=https://gc-cuny.academia.edu/RuthOBrien/CurriculumVitae |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=gc-cuny.academia.edu}} In 2003, she became the executive officer of the Ph.D./M.A. program in political science at the CUNY Graduate Center.{{Cite journal |date=2003 |title=People in Political Science |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3649288 |journal=PS: Political Science and Politics |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=809–817 |doi=10.1017/S1049096503003214 |jstor=3649288 |s2cid=233343364 |issn=1049-0965|url-access=subscription }} As of 2024, O'Brien is a professor at the City University of New York.{{Cite web |title=O'Brien, Ruth |url=https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/ruth-obrien |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=www.gc.cuny.edu |language=en}}

O'Brien is known for her writings and discussions on the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990{{Cite web |title=Legal Affairs Debate Club - Is the ADA Expanding? |url=https://www.legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/debateclub_ADA0206.html |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=www.legalaffairs.org}} and its implications for the workplace. Her book Crippled Justice was the first written history of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and was reviewed by Leonard Kriegel{{Cite news|last=Kriegel|first=Leonard|date=2002-08-01|title=Handicapping the Crippled|language=en-US|work=The Nation|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/handicapping-crippled/|access-date=2022-01-09|issn=0027-8378}} and others.{{Cite journal|last=Lang|first=Harry G.|date=2002|title=Review of Crippled Justice:The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace, Ruth O'Brien|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/345053|journal=Isis|volume=93|issue=2|pages=356–357|doi=10.1086/345053|jstor=10.1086/345053|issn=0021-1753|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Cottrol|first=Robert J.|date=2002|title=Review of Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3132592|journal=The Journal of Economic History|volume=62|issue=3|pages=902–904|jstor=3132592|issn=0022-0507}}{{Cite journal|last=Burke|first=Thomas F.|date=2003|title=Review of Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3687858|journal=Perspectives on Politics|volume=1|issue=1|pages=192–193|jstor=3687858|issn=1537-5927}}{{Cite journal|last=Noll|first=Steven|date=2001|title=Review of Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3185317|journal=The American Journal of Legal History|volume=45|issue=4|pages=520–522|doi=10.2307/3185317|jstor=3185317|issn=0002-9319|url-access=subscription}} In Bodies in Revolt she examined disability in the workplace, and this book was reviewed in Law & Society Review in 2008.{{Cite journal |last=Santore |first=Daniel |date=June 2008 |title=Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care |journal=Law & Society Review |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=445–447 |doi=10.1111/j.1540-5893.2008.00347_6.x }} She has also published on Barack Obama's presidency.{{Cite book |last=O'Brien |first=Ruth |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809911073 |title=Out of many, one : Obama and the third American political tradition |date=2013 |others=Foreword by Thomas Byrne Edsall |isbn=978-0-226-04159-9 |location=Chicago |oclc=809911073}}{{Cite news |date=13 May 2013 |title=Out of Many, One |work=Muscat Daily}}

• {{Cite book |last=O'Brien |first=Ruth |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45843939 |title=Workers' Paradox : The Republican origins of New Deal labor policy, 1886-1935 |date=1998 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=0-8078-6695-4 |location=Chapel Hill |oclc=45843939}}
• {{cite book |last1=O'Brien |first1=Ruth |title=Crippled Justice : the history of modern disability policy in the workplace |date=2001 |location=Chicago |isbn=9780226616605}}
• {{Cite journal |last=O'Brien |first=Ruth |date=2003 |title=From a Doctor's to a Judge's Gaze: Epistemic Communities and the History of Disability Rights Policy in the Workplace |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3235522 |journal=Polity |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=325–346 |doi=10.1086/POLv35n3ms3235522 |jstor=3235522 |s2cid=158038229 |issn=0032-3497|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite book |last=O'Brien |first=Ruth |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/846494690 |title=Bodies in revolt : gender, disability, and a workplace ethic of care |date=2005 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-39324-3 |location=New York |oclc=846494690}}
• {{Cite book |last=O'Brien |first=Ruth |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809911073 |title=Out of many, one : Obama and the third American political tradition |date=2013 |others=Foreword by Thomas Byrne Edsall |isbn=978-0-226-04159-9 |location=Chicago |oclc=809911073}}
• {{Cite journal |last=O'Brien |first=Ruth |date=2005-01-01 |title=Other Voices at the Workplace: Gender, Disability, and an Alternative Ethic of Care |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/423350 |journal=Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=1529–1555 |doi=10.1086/423350 |s2cid=145655270 |issn=0097-9740|url-access=subscription }}

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