Ronak K. Kapadia (he/him) is Associate Professor and Director of the Interdepartmental Graduate Concentration in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and affiliated faculty in Art History, Global Asian Studies, and Museum & Exhibition Studies at UIC. His interdisciplinary research engages critical ethnic studies, transnational queer and feminist studies, visual culture and performance studies, and critical studies of US empire and the national security state. Dr. Kapadia’s first book, Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War (Duke Press 2019) was awarded the 2020 Surveillance Studies Network Best Book Prize. He is co-editor of the special issue of Surveillance and Society on race and surveillance (2017) and his writing appears in numerous academic journals, edited volumes, and art catalogs. He is at work on a second book-length project, Breathing in the Brown Queer Commons, which examines queer and trans migrant futurisms in art and culture to develop a critical theory of healing justice in the wilds of ecological chaos and US imperial decline. Finally, Dr. Kapadia is a lead project director and co-curator of Surviving the Long Wars, a multi-sited NEH-funded public humanities platform in collaboration with the emerging Veteran Art Movement that explores the intimacies between the two “forever wars” in US history—the 18th and 19th century “American Indian wars” and the 21st century “global war on terror.” Exhibitions open in Chicago in Spring 2023.