Donna F. Ryan

[2] In 1984, she joined the History Department at Gallaudet University, where she worked for twenty-eight years, becoming a professor in 1993.

[1] In 1998, together with professor John S. Schuchman, also of Gallaudet University, she organised an international conference on "Deaf People in Hitler’s Europe".

[3] A collection of papers from this conference, co-edited by Ryan and Schuchman, was published as Deaf People in Hitler’s Europe by Gallaudet University Press and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002.

During her time at Gallaudet University, she helped to develop the Certificate in Deaf History program and to create the Women’s Studies Minor.

[1] In 2013 a panel session in memory of Donna Ryan was held at the Western Society for French History Conference, in Atlanta, Georgia.