Liat Ben-Moshe is an associate professor of criminology, law, and justice at the University of Illinois Chicago. She holds a PhD in sociology from Syracuse University, where her doctoral work concentrated on women's and gender studies and disability studies. Ben-Moshe's scholarly work focuses on the intersections of disability, incarceration, and social policy. She is best known for developing theories of dis-epistemology, examining the genealogy of deinstitutionalization, and exploring the concept of race-ability. Her research addresses how disability and criminal justice systems interact in the United States and Canada. Among her major publications is the edited volume Building Pedagogical Curb Cuts: Incorporating Disability into the University Classroom and Curriculum (2005), which addresses inclusive teaching practices. She also authored Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada (2014) and Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (2020), the latter of which examines connections between deinstitutionalization movements and prison abolition frameworks.