Nicole Lee Schroeder, Ph.D.

• College of Liberal Arts
• Department of History

•  Ph.D., University of Virginia
• M.A., University of Virginia
• B.A., Colgate University

• HIST 4323: The New Nation
• HIST 4317: Colonial America
• HIST 4000: Disability Histories
• HIST 4000: Women and Work in Early America
• HIST 4000: Academic Ableism
• HIST 3990: Junior Seminar
• HIST 2303: US History to 1877
• GE 1855: Disabled Pasts, Presents, and Futures
• GE 1855: Disability Justice

• Atlantic World History
• Early American History
• Disability History
• Critical Disability Studies

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• “‘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 https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2024.a922051.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters and Contributions (Forthcoming)

• “Poverty, Poor Relief, and Institutions in the Mid-Atlantic,” in The Routledge History of Disability in America, ed. Laurel Daen and Sarah Handley-Cousins (London: Routledge, 2026)
• “Accessibility,” in Do Less Harm: Ethics and the History of Health, Medicine, and the Human Sciences, ed. Courtney Thompson and Kylie Smith (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025)
• “How Early Americans Built Care Webs,” in Introduction to Place-Based Disability History: An Official NPS Handbook, ed. Kathleen M. Brian (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2024)

Book Chapters and Contributions (In Print)

• “Unspooling” reprinted in The Sick Times (May 6, 2024): https://thesicktimes.org/2024/05/06/unspooling-an-excerpt-from-alice-wongs-disability-intimacy/
• “Unspooling,” in Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire, edited by Alice Wong (New York: Vintage Books, 2024): 7-15.
• Leni Van Goidsenhoven, Nicole Schroeder, Inge Van de Putte, “Disability in the classroom: A roundtable conversation,” edited by Evelien Geerts, Josephine Hoegaerts, Daniel Blackie, and Kristien Hens, Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies Vol. 25, no. 1 (May 2022): 79-95. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGN2022.1.005.GOID

Book Reviews

• Review of Eric C. Nystrom and R. A. R Edwards, Ordinary Lives: Recovering Deaf Social History Through the American Census, American Historical Review (Forthcoming)
• Review of David Gissen The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access, H-Sci-Med-Tech (Aug 2023): https://networks.h-net.org/group/reviews/20001896/schroeder-gissen-architecture-disability-buildings-cities-and-landscapes
• Review of Gabriel Loiacono How Welfare Worked in the Early United States: Five Microhistories, Journal of Social History (Spring 2022): 675-77. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shac020
• Review of Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic, Journal of the Early Republic (Fall 2020): 577-80. https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2020.0080

Opinion Pieces, Public History, and Pedagogical Resources

• “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)
• “Counting Care,” The Panorama (June 3, 2024)
• “Teaching Disability History – Open Access Resources,” Kean University, April 2024
• “Teaching The Future is Disabled – Readings and Resources,” Kean University, Aug 2023
• “COVID Conferences: Vulnerable Scholars Needn’t Apply,” Inside Higher Ed (Oct 2022)