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Biography

Dr. Alicia A. Broderick is a Professor of Education with scholarly expertise in Critical Autism Studies (CAS) and Critical Neurodiversity Studies (CNS).  Her work critically examines both structural and interpersonal neuronormativity and neurobigotry, and explores ways to advance neuroinclusive and neuroaffirming practice in employment, schooling, healthcare, public policy, and other sectors.  Her work pays particular attention to the ways that ideologies and concepts proliferate and propagate within neoliberal political economies and information economies, in service of capital and of profit.   

She is the Founding Director of the at ����vlog, where she works together with colleagues to advance the development of innovative neuroaffirming curricula (at both undergraduate and graduate levels, through interdisciplinary and honors curricular pathways), to support and cultivate neurodivergent leadership, and to develop and disseminate scholarship (including public and multimedia scholarship) that addresses the flaws, failures, and shortcomings of the dominant (and pathologizing) knowledge base about autistic and otherwise neurodivergent experience.   

Information on the undergraduate Interdisciplinary Certificate Program in Neuroinclusive Practice and Leadership can be found here.   

Education

• B.Phil., Western College of Miami University
• M.S., Syracuse University
• Ph.D., Syracuse University

Publications

Selected recent books, manuscripts:  

• Broderick, A. (2022). The Autism Industrial Complex: How Branding, Marketing, and Capital Investment Turned Autism into Big Business. Gorham, ME:  . [nominated, American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Award, 2022; awarded, Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award, 2023] 
• Broderick, A. & Roscigno, R. (2025). Critical autism studies: Methodological incursions into education research.   Introductory manuscript for special guest-edited issue on Critical Autism Studies (authors are editors) of The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 38(5), 627-639.   
• Go Jefferies, J., Rhoads, M., Vogus, T., Satornino, C., Broderick, A. (2025). A Neurodiversity Perspective on Fostering Marketplace Inclusion by Bridging Ability Mismatches. Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, 44(2), 234-236.  

• Broderick, A. & Roscigno, R. (2021).  Autism, Inc.:  The autism industrial complex.  Journal of Disability Studies in Education, 2(1), pp. 77-101.   

Selected recent public and/or multimedia scholarship: 

• Broderick, A. (2026).    Healthcare Business Outlook.  

• Broderick, A. (31 March, 2025).  Autism:  Towards a critical awareness–On the role of public relations (PR) in building critical awareness of autism.  Invited paper presented at webinar titled Autismo:  Un’altra consapevolezza e’possibile (Autism:  Another awareness is possible).  Lombardy, Italy.

• Broderick, A. (January, 2025).  Moving beyond rhetoric:  How branding and capitalism shaped autism as we know it.  Invited interview with Diverg. Podcast.  Season 1, episode 12. 

• Broderick, A. (July, 2024).  Alicia Broderick on the left, public relations, the autism industrial complex, capitalism, and behaviorism.  Invited interview on the Cultural Studies Podcast hosted by Toby Miller. 

• Broderick, A. (June, 2024).  Neurodiversity as marketing/PR campaign.  Invited keynote presentation to webinar:  Neurodiversity in a capitalist era.  Hosted by the English Language Learning and Neurodiversity (ELLeN) program of the European Union.  Ghent, Belgium

• Broderick, A. (April 28, 2023).  Developing neuroinclusive workplaces (without commodifying and exploiting neurodivergent people).  Invited for the. 

• Broderick, A. (June 30, 2022).   Invited interview with Anne Borden King for.    

• Broderick, A. (April 1, 2022).  Autism awareness “counter-programming”:  Raising critical awareness of the Autism Industrial Complex.  Invited to the New Jersey Center of Autism Excellence (NJACE).  Kick-off event to NJACE’s curation of Autism Acceptance Month 2022 events.