Ronak Kapadia Receives a 2020 Surveillance Studies Network Book Prize
Ronak Kapadia has received a 2020 Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) Book Prize for his book, Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War. This award is given to work that makes a significant contribution to advancing the field of surveillance studies.
Ronak is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and affiliated faculty in Art History, Global Asian Studies, and Museum & Exhibition Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His broader research and teaching fields include: critical ethnic studies; race radical and transnational feminisms; queer of color critique; Arab/Muslim/South Asian diasporas; national security and surveillance; critical prison and military studies; visual and performance studies; affect and new materialisms; radical social movements; and US Empire.