ARIEL MERKEL is a Ph.D. student in the sociology department of the New School for Social Research, with a focus on disability studies. Prior to returning to graduate school, Ariel worked for People Inc., a non-profit agency that serves the developmentally disabled, for four years in Buffalo, NY. Her current research stems from her previous work with people with disabilities, specifically feminist disability theory and a Goffmanian analysis of deinstitutionalization. She is fascinated by how disability, a malleable identity which shifts spatially and temporarily and yet is so deeply rooted to the body and literally embedded in bone, intersects with other identities that are typically conceptualized as socially constructed performances. Ariel is a project fellow in the Future of Disability Studies at Columbia University’s Center for Critical Analysis of Social Difference.
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