Rebecca Adelman

Rebecca A. Adelman is Professor and Chair of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in Baltimore, where she is also an affiliate professor in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies.  Her research is animated by a curiosity about the intersections of visual culture and militarized violence, especially questions of affect, citizenship, and ethics.  She is the author of Beyond the Checkpoint: Visual Practices in America’s Global War on Terror (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014), Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War (Fordham University Press, 2019), and co-editor of Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence (University of Minnesota Press, 2020).  She’s also the creator of Coronavirus Lost and Found (pandemicarchive.com), a public archival project where anyone can log anything they’ve lost or found because of coronavirus.