A cultural anthropologist, Pamela P. Cushing teaches at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario where she is an assistant professor in social justice and peace studies and in sociology. Dr. Cushing has investigated how L’Arche community life functions as a sub-culture that shapes the moral imaginations of assistants by expanding their conceptualizations of difference and disability. A graduate of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, she earned a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Ontario’s McMaster University in 2003. As the recipient of a post-doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, she conducted participant-observation fieldwork among youth with developmental impairments on questions of well-being and social inclusions during a year at the University of Aberdeen. Dr. Cushing worked as a marketing analyst for Procter & Gamble and as a researcher and instructor for Outward Bound early in her career. Before her appointment to the University of Western Ontario faculty in 2005, she helped design courses in disability studies at several Canadian universities and conducted research for disability-related institutes. Her ongoing collaboration with L’Arche communities in Canada and the United Kingdom includes teaching about the culture, myth, and history of disability and helping to create a Canadian model for Intercordia France, an accredited international service-learning course based on Jean Vanier’s vision of nurturing peace-builders. Dr. Cushing is the author of a number of articles published in scholarly journals and essays in volumes of collected works. She is working on a book about the cultural insights L’Arche offers to the field of disability.