Andrea Miller

Andrea Miller is assistant professor in the departments of Telecommunications and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. 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, predictive policing and biometric surveillance technologies, and U.S. 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 also serves on the editorial board for Big Data & Society.

In their current book project, “Sensing the Cyber Ecosystem,” Miller examines the cyber ecosystem as a sense-making concept for the U.S. security state. Through ethnographic and archival research in the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia and South Carolina, home to U.S. Army Cyber Command and a growing cybersecurity market, they chart the cyber ecosystem as it travels across the military and security sector, higher education, and economic development.

A product of Cold War-era defense projects, cybernetic ecological science, and the racial legacies of the post-Reconstruction South, the cyber ecosystem is not simply an innocent metaphor used to describe an increasingly networked digital world. Marshaling the force of natural law and scientific precepts, the cyber ecosystem governs 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 U.S. empire.

“The Fungible Terrorist: Abject Whiteness, Domestic Terrorism, and the Multicultural Security State.” Co-authored with Lisa Bhungalia. In “Global Counterinsurgency and the Police-Military Continuum,” ed. Stuart Schrader. Special issue, Small Wars & Insurgencies (2022): 1–24.

“Cyber Insecurities and Racialized Threat in the Embattled Urban Ecosystem.” In Insecurity, edited by Richard Grusin, 139–164. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2022.

“Securing Nature's Return: Environmental Policing and Ecosystem Ecology at the Savannah River Site Nuclear Reservation.” In Violent Order: Essays on the Nature of the Police, edited by David Correia and Tyler Wall. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2021.

“Data-Driven Policing and the Colonial Database.” In Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance, edited by The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2021.

“Drones as ‘Atmospheric Policing’: From US Border Enforcement to the LAPD.” Co-authored with Caren Kaplan. Public Culture 31, no. 3 (2019): 419–445.

“Shadows of War, Traces of Policing: The Weaponization of Space and the Sensible in Preemption.” In Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life, edited by Ruha Benjamin, 85–106. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.

“(Im)Material Terror: Incitement to Violence Discourse as Racializing Technology in the War on Terror.” In Life in the Age of Drone Warfare, edited by Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan, 112–133. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.

“Intervention Symposium: Introduction to Algorithmic Governance.” Co-authored with Jeremy Crampton. Antipode. May 2017.

“Protocological Violence and the Colonial Database.” Antipode. May 2017.

“Review: An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances in the War on Terror by Amira Jarmakani.” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 24, no. 5 (2017): 748–750.

“Ghost Photography in the War on Terror: Manadel al-Jamadi and the Shadow of Surveillance.” Media Fields Journal 11 (2016): 1–8.