Shane Kingston Cynamon

My name is Shane Kingston Cynamon. I am a third year doctoral student in the sociocultural wing of the anthropology department at UC Davis. My doctoral research focuses on how disabilities are medicalized within society, as well as how students with disabilities navigate the K-12 system as well as how they as well as their peers, teachers, and staff perceive their condition within the context of the larger classroom. My dissertation work will involve observing schools, including two public schools in Davis in the first phase, as well as a private and special education school in the second phase, where I will take note of how students with autism learn within a range of classroom settings, and also conduct interviews with teachers, staff, and adult students, to learn what it means to educate students within autism in the case of teachers and staff, or what it means to be a student on the autism spectrum from the perspective of adult students.