Jennifer W. Reiss is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees, both in History, from Penn, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and two master’s degrees, in Law and American History, respectively, from Cambridge University. Jenny’s research focuses largely on eighteenth-century Britain, British North America, and the early American republic, but combines various historical sub-disciplines. Her dissertation project, Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America, rethinks how disability as a social category was constructed and experienced before burgeoning clinical understandings of bodily difference in the antebellum era. Thinking expansively about disability through the lens of womanhood, Undone Bodies brings legal, social, medical, labor, and political histories to bear on the interwoven relationship between gender and ability. The project seeks to uncover hidden histories of disabled women, but also to question the gendered ways in which we imagine disability in the past.