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First Name
Nicole
Last Name
Schroeder
Country
United States
State
NJ
Affiliation
Kean University
Website URL
nicoleleeschroeder.com
Keywords
disability studies, 19th century, social history, history of poverty, disability history, history of medicine
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About Me

I’m an Assistant Professor of History at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. Across my research profile, I interrogate how disabled people (past and present) survive. I consider how disabled communities secure care and how they resist the medical industrial complex. I also do a lot of disability advocacy work surrounding access and accessibility issues in higher education.

Recent Publications

“Accessibility,” in Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, Courtney Thompson and Kylie Smith (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025): 48-58.

“Dying a ‘Good’ Death: Disability and the Assisted Suicide Debate,” Disability Visibility Project (January 1, 2025)

“Philadelphia’s 200-year-old disability records show welfare reform movement’s early shift toward rationing care and punishing poor people,” The Conversation (June 13, 2024)

“Unspooling,” in Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire, edited by Alice Wong (New York: Vintage Books, 2024): 7-15.

“‘An Emporium of Beggars:’ Medical Rhetoric, Disabled Bodies, and Philadelphia’s Early Nationalist Welfare Crises,” Journal of the Early Republic 44, no. 1 (2024): 57-86.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
North America
Expertise by Geography
Atlantic, England, North America, United Kingdom, United States
Expertise by Chronology
17th century, 18th century, 19th century
Expertise by Topic
American Founding Era, Disability, Human Rights, Labor, Law, Medicine, Pedagogy, Public History, Science, Technology, Urban History