Representing the new interdisciplinary field of study, Disability studies, it became a national organization and was renamed the Society for Disability Studies in 1986. One of SDS' founders, Irving Zola (1935-1994), Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University, had earlier taken over a publication called the Disability Newsletter. This newsletter was started by sociologist Natalie Allon (1941-2001), who published the first issue (Vol. 1, No. 1) in July 1980, as part of the disability subsection of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. After an accident left Allon unable to continue the newsletter, Zola published Vol. 2, No. 1 in July 1982 and renamed it the Disability and Chronic Disease Newsletter. In 1986, Zola changed the name to Disability Studies Quarterly (
The early DSQ issues were in a photocopied and stapled format. They contained reviews of disability-related materials from numerous disciplines, an extensive event calendar of disability-oriented meetings, and calls for papers. Early in the history of DSQ, Zola began assigning themes to three of each year's issues. (Winter issues were typically left as non-themed, general issues.) Themes ran the gamut, e.g. from public policy to media to the body to technology to aging, and each theme issue had a guest editor with expertise on the theme. Articles were generally short, more often "think pieces" than research reports, and were not peer reviewed beyond the guest editor's review, backed up by Zola's final editorial review.
The journal was published from Brandeis University until Zola's death in 1994. After his death, his widow, Judy Norsigian, and SDS established a Disability Studies Quarterly Steering Committee. It was composed of: Howie Baker (Heller School, Brandeis University), Gunnar Dybwad (Heller School, Brandeis University), Janet Boudreau (former DSQ Managing Editor), Elaine Makas (Lewiston Auburn College of the University of Southern Maine), Adrienne Asch (Wellesley College), and David Pfeiffer (Suffolk University). Norsigian struck an agreement with SDS at that time stating that DSQ would transfer to SDS as long as it continued to be published. If publication discontinued, the right to revive DSQ would revert to Norsigian.
Steering committee member David Pfeiffer (1934-2003), a political scientist and chair of the Department of Public Management at Suffolk University in Boston, took over as editor in summer 1995. The content continued to expand with much original research in the growing field of Disability Studies appearing within it. Pfeiffer appointed a book review editor, Elaine Makas of the University of Southern Maine, who held this appointment during Pfeiffer's time as editor. He also created an editorial board of Barbara Altman of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Harlan Hahn of the University of Southern California, Karen Hirsch of ParaQuad, Paul Longmore of San Francisco State University, Lynn Schlesinger of SUNY-Plattsburgh, and Richard Scotch of The University of Texas at Dallas.
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