Stefanie Fishel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama, specializing in women in technology. She earned her doctorate from The Johns Hopkins University in 2011 with specializations in International Relations and Political Theory. Her research interests include the gendered and racialized experiences of violence; warfare, terrorism, and technology; theories of biopolitics and posthumanism; critical animal studies; and global environmental theory centring on climate change and the Anthropocene. She is the author of The Microbial State: Global Thriving and the Body Politic (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).