Laura Mauldin

Laura Mauldin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Critical Inquiry at the University of Connecticut. Her work bridges sociology, feminist disability studies, deaf studies, and science and technology studies (STS), with a focus on exposing ableism as a central societal organizing principle. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses integrating disability studies, STS, and medical sociology.

• Ph.D., Sociology, City University of New York – Graduate Center
• M.A., Deaf studies, Gallaudet University
• B.A., Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin

Her research examines ableism's intersections with oppression systems, medical technologies' impact on caregiving, disability/chronic illness dynamics in families, and feminist bodily theory. She is a qualitative methodologist teaching research methods and writing for publication.

Laura's forthcoming book In Sickness and In Health: Love Stories From the Frontlines of America’s Caregiving Crisis (Ecco, 2026) explores caregiving through memoir and reportage. She also created Disability at Home, documenting disabled people's and caregivers' home-access innovations.

Her publications focus on disability during crises, care labor, medicalization discourses, and technoscientific approaches to disability. These works span topics including cochlear implants' sociocultural implications, pandemic-induced disability barriers, trauma in care research, and family grief dynamics.