Ronak KapadiaRonak K. Kapadia is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, war, aesthetics, and empire in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century United States. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and affiliated faculty in rt History, Global Asian Studies, and Museum and Exhibition Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Kapadia's award-winning first book, Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War (Duke University Press 2019) examines the radical experiments, freedom dreams, and queer world-making potential of contemporary art and aesthetics in the ongoing context of US war and empire in the Greater Middle East. In addition to co-editing the special issue of Surveillance & Society on "race and surveillance," Kapadia has contributed to numerous academic journals, edited volumes, and art catalogs. He is at work on a new book project, Breathing in the Brown Queer Commons, which examines queer and trans migrant futurisms in visual culture and performance art to develop a critical theory of healing justice and pleasure in the wilds of ecological chaos and US imperial decline. Read More Read Less