Bodies, Ecologies, and Critical Disability Studies

The department is a dynamic hub for interdisciplinary scholarship in Bodies, Ecologies, and Critical Disability Studies, with a strong emphasis on intersectionality, feminist, queer, and trans inquiry. Faculty have expertise in multiple research areas including reproductive justice, environmental justice, climate justice, crip of color studies, neurodiversity and mad studies, fat studies, and gender and health.

We offer students an opportunity to engage with a wide range of methodologies grounded in decolonial, anti-racist, and transnational embodied epistemologies. The program critically examines how structures of power, resistance, and material conditions shape lived experiences, challenging dominant narratives about bodies, capacities, and the environment.  We prioritize knowledge and transformative scholarship that advances new possibilities for collective liberation and social change.