Nicole Schroeder

Creative Nonfiction

Nicole Schroeder is a PhD Candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on disability in early America, tracing everyday embodied experiences alongside the development of scientific medicine and the creation of the American welfare state. She is also the founder of the Disabled Academic Collective, a mutual aid network of disabled graduate students, undergraduates, faculty members, and staff in higher education. She is currently finishing her dissertation and writing on academic ableism.

Nicole Schroeder is working with Emily Maloney.