Andrea Miller is an assistant professor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Telecommunications at The Pennsylvania State University, where they also direct the Feminist Technocultures Lab. Drawing from transnational, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic feminist theory, the history and philosophy of science and technology, and cultural studies, Miller examines the emergence of technoscientific practices and infrastructures through histories of militarism, policing, and empire. In particular, they are interested in how technology and security shape affective sensibilities of race, gender, disability, and class.

Their publications and research have examined the roles of disability and racialization in science and technology studies (STS) methodologies; racialized and gendered logics of drone warfare, cybersecurity, and preemption; the criminalization of online speech acts and material support for terrorism prosecutions in the US war on terror; predictive policing and biometric surveillance technologies; and the politics of algorithms, databases, and remote sensing.

Their current book, Sensing the Cyber Ecosystem: Politics of Remediation in the Liberal Security State (forthcoming Duke UP) offers an emplaced and alternative history of cybernetics through the racialized genesis and entanglements of ecosystem ecology and nuclear science in the US South. Specifically, Miller examines the “cyber ecosystem” as a remediating, or sensing and sense-making, concept for the US security state. Drawing from ethnographic and archival research in the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia and South Carolina, home to US Army Cyber Command and a rapidly growing cybersecurity market, they chart the wide invocation of the cyber ecosystem by actors throughout the military and security sector, higher education, and economic development—tracing the cyber ecosystem through Cold War–era nuclear defense projects and cybernetic formulations of ecosystem ecology to the racial legacies of the post-Reconstruction US South. Not simply an innocent metaphor used to describe an increasingly networked digital world, the cyber ecosystem marshals the force of natural law and scientific precepts to govern how the security state senses and makes sense of relationships between global security and tech capital, affective and political economies of race and gender, and the technoscientific infrastructures, anxieties, and failures of US empire.  

Alongside Cindy Lin and Tina Chen, Miller is coediting special issue 12.2 of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, “Computational Environments” (Fall 2026), and has a forthcoming article, “Questioning Irradiated Archives: Grief, Debility, and Politics inside/outside Feminist Science and Technology Studies,” in the journal Women & Performance. They also serve as a member of the Editorial Board for Big Data & Society and, previously, Public Interest Technology Research Lead for the NSF Gen-4 Engineering Research Center for Smart Streetscapes (CS3).

They have contributed chapters to the anthologies Life in the Age of Drone Warfare (Parks and Kaplan 2017), Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (Benjamin 2019), Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance (The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project 2021), Violent Order: Essays on the Nature of the Police (Correia and Wall 2021), Insecurity (Grusin 2022), and States of Surveillance (Avis, Marciniak, and Sapignoli 2024). Their work has appeared in Media Fields Journal and Gender, Place & Culture, as well as coauthored articles with Caren Kaplan in Public Culture (2019) and Lisa Bhungalia in Small Wars & Insurgencies (2022). In 2017, they coedited the Antipode forum “Algorithmic Governance” with Jeremy Crampton.

Miller earned their PhD in Cultural Studies with a designated emphasis in STS from the University of California, Davis, in 2020 and their MA in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Georgia State University in 2014.