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Dr. Katherine Fehr Chandler is an Associate Professor of Culture and Politics at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis in New Media, and degrees from the University of Amsterdam and New College of Florida. Her research examines how technology, media, and politics interact to shape global power structures. Central to her work are studies of drone warfare, socio-political entanglements with everyday technologies like PowerPoint and email, and the reconfiguration of drones for humanitarian and commercial purposes in Africa.
Her first monograph, Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare (2020), analyzes the historical and political underpinnings of drone technology, while her ongoing project Drone Publics explores drones’ role in African development, wildlife management, and postcolonial governance. Chandler’s work has been supported by grants such as Georgetown University’s competitive pilot grant program.
Her peer-reviewed articles span journals including Social Studies of Science and Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, addressing themes like drone technologies’ racialized and gendered frameworks, the ethics of targeted killing, and the intersection of media and state power.
