Overview

• This study is a multi-phase project involving an anonymous survey (n=267) and semi-structured interviews (n=38).
• Key themes include space and time, access, institutional barriers, collective accountability, and differences in lived experience across factors such as race, gender, rank, geographic location, type of disability, and type of institution.
• Our sampling method for the interview phase is maximum variation or diversity sampling. This approach seeks to gather as many different stories and experiences as possible. The key question for this sampling method is not “Who is typical or representative of a group?” but rather “Who is unimagined? What new questions might be discovered through learning from the unimagined?”

Collaboration

• Other researchers who have worked on this project include Dr. Stephanie Kerschbaum of the University of Washington, and Dr. Mark Salzer and Dr. Amber O’Shea of the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion.

Further research needed

• The Disabled Academics Study examines the experiences of disabled faculty, including those in non-tenure-track positions, and staff in a variety of roles. However, much more research remains to be done, including studies that focus on the experiences of disabled graduate students and independent researchers.
• Please contact Margaret Price if you would like access to the interview guide used in this study. I encourage other researchers to read our team’s work, consider our methods, and share findings in order to expand knowledge about disabled people in university life more generally.

Publications

• Price, Margaret. Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life. Durham: NC, Duke University Press, 2024. NOW AVAILABLE OPEN ACCESS! Go to the Duke University Press website for Crip Spacetime and click “Read the Introduction.”
  • Due to delays in initiating the open-source process, this is where the open-source copy will be for now; I’ll update this site when it’s moved to a more recognizable link.
• Kerschbaum, Stephanie. Signs of Disability. New York University Press, 2022.
• Price, Margaret. “Time Harms: Disabled Faculty Navigating the Accomodations Loop.” South Atlantic Quarterly special issue on “Crip Temporalities,” edited by Elizabeth Freeman and Ellen J. Samuels. South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (2): 257–277.
• Price, Margaret. “The Precarity of Disability/Studies in Academe.” Precarious Rhetorics. Ed. Wendy Hesford, Adela Licona, Christa Teston. Series in New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2018. 191-211.
• Price, Margaret and Stephanie L. Kerschbaum. “Promoting Supportive Academic Environments for Faculty with Mental Illnesses.” A resource guide from the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion. 2017.
• Price, Margaret, Mark S. Salzer, Amber M. O’Shea, and Stephanie L. Kerschbaum. “Disclosure of Mental Disability by College and University Faculty: The Negotiation of Accommodations, Supports, and Barriers.” Disability Studies Quarterly 37.2 (2017).
• Price, Margaret. “Un/Shared Space: The Dilemma of Inclusive Architecture.” Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader. Ed. Jos Boys. London/New York: Routledge, 2017. 155-172.
• Kerschbaum, Stephanie L. and Margaret Price. “Centering Disability in Qualitative Interviewing.” Research in the Teaching of English 52.1 (2017).
• Price, Margaret and Stephanie L. Kerschbaum. “Stories of Methodology: Interviewing Sideways, Crooked, and Crip.” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 5.3 (2016).
• Kerschbaum, Stephanie L., Amber M. O’Shea, Margaret Price, and Mark S. Salzer. “Accommodations and Disclosure for Faculty Members with Mental Disability.” Negotiating Disability: Disclosure and Higher Education. Ed. Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, Laura T. Eisenman, and James M. Jones. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017.

Grant Support

• Price, Margaret. Fulbright Research Grant to University of Gothenberg, Sweden. Spring 2022.
• Price, Margaret and Stephanie L. Kerschbaum (co-PIs). Research Initiative Grant. Conference on College Composition and Communication. 2014-2016.
• Salzer, Mark M., PI. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). Grant H133B100037. 2008-2013.

Publicity

• Pryal, Katie Rose Guest. “On Faculty and Mental Illness.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 19 December 2017.
• Flaherty, Colleen. “Portrait of Faculty Mental Health.” Inside Higher Education. 8 June 2017.
• Perry, David. “Removing the Barriers to Participation for Disabled Scholars.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. 8 July 2015.