Liat Ben-Moshe

Liat Ben-Moshe is a disability scholar and assistant professor of criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ben-Moshe holds a PhD in sociology from Syracuse University with concentrations in Women and Gender Studies and Disability Studies. Ben-Moshe's work “has brought an intersectional disability studies approach to the phenomenon of mass incarceration and decarceration in the US”. Ben-Moshe's major works include ''Building Pedagogical Curb Cuts: Incorporating Disability into the University Classroom and Curriculum'' (2005), ''Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada'' (2014), and ''Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition'' (2020). Ben-Moshe is best known for her theories of dis-epistemology, genealogy of deinstitutionalization, and race-ability. Provided by Wikipedia