Rebecca A. Adelman completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in 2009 and was formerly Professor and Chair of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. At UMBC, she was also affiliate faculty in the Department of Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies, and taught for the Intermedia and Digital Arts MFA program. She served for five years as co-chair of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Women’s Faculty Network. She is the author of Beyond the Checkpoint: Visual Practices in America’s Global War on Terror (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014) and 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 is currently co-authoring a book with Wendy Kozol, The War In-Between (under contract with Fordham University Press). In 2016, she won a University System of Maryland Board of Regents Award for Excellence in Research. In March 2020, she created Coronavirus Lost and Found (pandemicarchive.com), a public archival project where anyone can log anything they’ve lost or found because of the coronavirus.
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