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Andrea Miller

Andrea Miller

Assistant Professor of Telecommunications and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
andreamiller@psu.edu
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Professional Bio

Andrea Miller is assistant professor in the departments of Telecommunications and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and director of the Feminist Technocultures Lab, housed in the Bellsario College of Communications and College of the Liberal Arts. Miller earned their Ph.D. in cultural studies with a designated emphasis in science and technology studies from the University of California, Davis, and a master's degree in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies from Georgia State University.

In their research and teaching, Miller draws from transnational and postcolonial feminist studies, science and technology studies, and cultural studies to consider how technology, security, and empire shape sensibilities of race and gender. Their work has examined the racialized and gendered logics of drone warfare and preemption, the criminalization of online speech acts and incitements to violence, predictive policing and biometric surveillance technologies, and US counterterrorism policy. Miller’s publications have appeared in journals such as Public Culture, Antipode, Gender, Place and Culture, and Small Wars & Insurgencies as well as various edited collections. Miller currently serves on the editorial board for Big Data & Society and, alongside Cindy Lin and Tina Chen, is coediting a special issue of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, "Computational Environments."

Miller’s current book project, under contract with Duke University Press, examines the “cyber ecosystem” as a remediating, or sensing and sense-making, concept for the US security state. Drawing from ethnographic and archival research in the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia and South Carolina, home to US Army Cyber Command and a rapidly growing cybersecurity market, they chart the wide invocation of the cyber ecosystem by actors throughout the military and security sector, higher education, and economic development—tracing the cyber ecosystem through Cold War–era defense projects and cybernetic formulations of ecosystem ecology to the racial legacies of the post-Reconstruction US South. Not simply an innocent metaphor used to describe an increasingly networked digital world, the cyber ecosystem marshals the force of natural law and scientific precepts to govern how the security state senses and makes sense of relationships between global security and tech capital, affective and political economies of race and gender, and the technoscientific infrastructures, anxieties, and failures of US empire.