Monica C. Schneider (Chair) is the Paul Rejai Professor of Political Science at Miami University, located in Oxford, Ohio. Her research and teaching interests include American politics, gender, caregiving, and disability politics and policy. Her research has appeared in Political Psychology, Health Affairs, Politics, Groups and Identities, and the Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy, among others. Schneider is also a founding member of the Gender and Political Psychology Group, which organizes mentoring conferences for research and teaching that uses a psychological approach to study gender.
Nancy J. Hirschmann is Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought in the department of political science and the program on gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom and Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory, and Rethinking Obligation: A Feminist Method for Political Theory. She is currently finishing a book on the concept of freedom from a disability perspective.
Amber Knight, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, earned her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research generally focuses on contemporary political theory, critical disability studies, and feminist political thought. She has published several articles on disability in political science journals, including The Journal of Politics and Politics, Groups, and Identities, among other outlets. In addition, her book– Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice (Oxford University Press, 2023), co-authored with Dr. Joshua Miller– was awarded Honorable Mention for the Alison Piepmeier Book Prize for the National Women’s Studies Association.
Art Blaser is Professor of Peace Studies and Political Science at Chapman University in Orange; California where he co-directs the Disability Studies minor. His scholarly interests include international law, mass atrocity, human rights, and disability law and policy. His articles have appeared in Human Rights Quarterly, the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, New Political Science, Disability Studies Quarterly, Peace Review, and elsewhere. He is on the editorial review boards of Disability Studies Quarterly and New Political Science.
Lisa Schur is Professor and past Chair of the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University, where she teaches employment law and labor studies. She received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California-Berkeley and a J.D. from Northeastern University. Her research focuses on the economic, political, and social inclusion of people with disabilities, particularly their political participation and employment experiences and outcomes. In addition to publishing in peer-reviewed journals, she wrote an invited White Paper on Disability and Voting for the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, and co-authored the book People with Disabilities: Sidelined or Mainstreamed? published by Cambridge University Press.