Amanda Cachia (PhD UCSD, 2017) is Professor of Practice in Museum Studies in the School of Art at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University and Affiliate Faculty in the Disability Studies BA. Her research interests include disability art history, theory and activism, crip curatorial practices and access aesthetics, museums, institutional critique, and social justice, and critical disability approaches to translation, movement, medicine, and health. Cachia is the author of two books, Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism (2025), and The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique (2024). She is also editor of Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation (2022), which includes over 40 international contributors. She is currently working on her third book, Rehabilitating the Asylum: Mental Health Justice and Contemporary Art, which is under advance contract with Manchester University Press. Since 2010, Cachia has organized 20 art exhibitions devoted to the work of disabled artists. In 2024, her exhibition Smoke & Mirrors at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University was supported by a $180,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. Cachia’s research, writing, and curatorial work have been supported by grants and fellowships from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and the Millard Meiss Publication Fund through the College Art Association. She is a recipient of the $50,000 National Art and Disability Award (Established Category) from Creative Australia (2024).