Emma Schroeder holds a PhD in History from the University of Maine and an M.S. in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation, "Making Earth, Making Home: Technoscientific Citizenship and Ecological Domesticity in an Age of Limits" looked at concepts of ecological domesticity and women's political activism in appropriate technology organizations from the 1960s to the 1980s. She draws inspiration from a number of fields, including environmental history, feminist science and technology studies, geography, women's history, and the history of science and technology.