Erin Durban, they/them, Associate professor in Anthropology at University of Minnesota and Jessica Cooley, she/her, ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow at University of Minnesota

"Research accessibility" usually refers to accessibility for research subjects or participants, or making research findings accessible to various audiences, but researchers themselves (including faculty, graduate students, and staff researchers) may have disabilities, impairments, health conditions, or other considerations that can make carrying out their research more difficult. This event will help such researchers connect with each other and contribute to making the U more aware of their experiences and possible ways to improve institutional support.

Erin Durban’s scholarship works at the intersections of interdisciplinary feminist and queer studies, transnational American studies, critical disability studies, and critical ecologies. Durban is currently the Co-Chair of the Association for Queer Anthropology and Co-Chair of Critical Disability Studies at UMN.

Jessica A. Cooley (she/hers) is a scholar-curator working at the intersection of curatorial and museum studies, crip theory, and Modern and contemporary art. Currently, Cooley is serving as the ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow for the University of Minnesota’s Liberal Arts Engagement Hub.