LAURA MAULDIN

Laura Mauldin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Critical Inquiry at the University of Connecticut. She has published extensively in both scholarly and public outlets on the US caregiving crisis, the politics of disability and illness, how people move through and experience health care systems in the US, the cultural meanings of disability, and the impacts of ableism in society. In 2024, she was named a New America Fellow to support her first book, In Sickness and In Health: Love Stories from the Frontlines of America’s Caregiving Crisis. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Baffler, and The American Prospect, among other outlets. Laura is also a nationally certified sign language interpreter and maintains the website Disability at Home, which highlights the ingenuity of disabled people and caregivers sharing advice on how to make homes accessible.