Ronak Kapadia Publishes Articles and Curates Scholarly Series
Ronak Kapadia published (with Toby Beauchamp), “Outside, Looking In: Alternative Legacies and Futures for Surveillance Studies.” Surveillance & Society 20, no. 4 (2022): 406-412, “The Galactic Potential of Queer Muslim Futurism: Listening for the Leninist Echo in Planet 65.” Art Catalog Essay in ABJD and Tomorrow We Inherit the Earth: A Film Series by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, eds. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Yomna Osman (Saratoga, CA: Sming Sming Books, 2023).
He is also co-curating the Surviving the Long Wars virtual scholarly series.
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 the University of Illinois Chicago. 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.